Chinook legend program in OC includes panel on Jacobs and Howard

[Jeffrey Kopp]

 From today's Oregonian. This Sunday afternoon. I see Tony will speak.

http://www.oregonlive.com/metrosouth/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/metro_south_news/1056715141252560.xml

Note this is the museum at the falls, not the Oregon Trail Center.
http://www.orcity.com/museum/current.html

>OREGON CITY -- A literary event exploring the literature and lore of
>Willamette Falls will be presented Sunday in conjunction with the Museum
>of the Oregon Territory's exhibit, "10,000 Years of Art & Trade in the
>Willamette Valley."
>
>"RiverSpeak III: The Literature and Lore of Willamette Falls" will feature
>a panel discussion at 1 p.m., "The Legacy of Melville Jacobs and Victoria
>Howard Regarding Myths of the Clackamas Chinooks."
>
>The discussion will be followed at 2:30 p.m. by a guided tour of the
>exhibit and, at 3 p.m. by "The Literature and Lore of Willamette Falls:
>Stories, Poems and Reminiscences, Native American and Pioneer, With the
>RiverSpeakers."

. . .

>Discussion panelists will include Jarold Ramsey, professor emeritus,
>University of Rochester, N.Y. Ramsey has written several books, including
>"Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country,"
>(University of Washington Press, 1977) and the soon-to-be published "New
>Era: Reflections on the Human and Natural History of Central Oregon,"
>(Oregon State University Press, 2003.)
>
>Other panelists are Rick Rubin, author of "Naked Against the Rain: The
>People of the Lower Columbia River, 1770-1830," (Far Shore Press, 1999);
>John M. Gogol, curator of the exhibit; Patrick Harris, executive director
>of the Clackamas County Historical Society; and poets David Hedges and
>Walt Curtis.
>
>The RiverSpeakers -- Harris, Rubin, Gogol and Kathryn Harrison, Leon Tom
>and Tony Johnson, three elders of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand
>Ronde -- will tell native and pioneer stories.
>
>For information call 503-655-5574.