Event Connects Local Wetlands with Native American Heritage (fwd link)

Sun Sep 7 16:53:34 UTC 2008

EVENT CONNECTS LOCAL WETLANDS WITH NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE

By Matt Cooper
The Register-Guard
Oregon

Published: September 7, 2008 12:00AM

A first-time event at the West Eugene Wetlands on Saturday connected the public
to the area’s rich ecology and some of its first inhabitants, the Kalapuya
Indians.

The brainchild of wetlands educators and Kalapuya elder Esther Stutzman, “Native
American Wetlands Culture Day” included basket-weaving, drumming demonstrations,
traditional storytelling — even a canoe consistent with Kalapuyan craftsmanship,
the first built in 125 years, officials said.

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