FW: Tarweed Awakening Corvallis event - August 23 from 1-4 pm

[Teresa Matteson]

 

 

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Subject: Tarweed Awakening Corvallis event - August 23 from 1-4 pm

 

YOU are invited to the first –

Tarweed Awakening Corvallis: The Plant, The Person, The Place

Saturday, August 23, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Meet at Wild Yeast Bakery (648 SW 2^nd Street & B Avenue)

 

Free and open to the public. No registration. Just show up. Park in the City parking lot at Western Ave. and 2^nd Street.

 

The first annual Tarweed Awakening Corvallis led by the OSU Indigenous Studies Program will help us learn and experience a plant, a person and a place – all related to Kalapuya culture. Sawal (Tarweed) is a plant that produces a tasty and highly nutritious seed when roasted. Sawala was a significant Kalapuya person named after the plant. Sawala Point is an important place in Champinefu (Corvallis), named for the person.

 

Tarweed Awakening Corvallis is starting small with four venues for its first year:

1. SHAWALA POINT – A tour of Shawala Point from an indigenous perspective by faculty and students of the OSU Indigenous Studies Program. Tours start at 1:15 pm and 2:15 pm.
2. TARWEED FOLK SCHOOL AT WADE HARDWARE – This interactive program will focus on indigenous practices related to Tarweed by Chris Rempel. Cultural Resources Specialist for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde.
3. CORVALLIS MUSEUM – An interactive program led by Chris Rempel of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde about the mystery of a Kalapuya man (Sawala – AKA William Hartless) and a Corvallis settler with the same name, Willam Hartless. This interactive program will be staffed by OSU Indigenous Studies students and museum staff. 1:00-3:00 pm.
4. WILD YEAST BAKERY – The Awakening will close at the Bakery adjacent to Shawala Point with three short (10 minutes each) presentations:
1. Molly Carney – OSU Assistant Professor of Anthropology with an emphasis on ethnobotany. Molly will present about Tarweed from a cultural history perspective.
2. David Harrelson – Ampinefu Kalapuya member and Cultural Resources Manager of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. David will present a Grand Ronde perspective of Shawala, the person.
3. Luhui Whitebear – OSU Assistant Professor and coordinator of the OSU Indigenous Studies Project. Luhui will present an indigenous perspective of Shawala Point, the place and how that relates to the reality of the current land uses and conditions.

 

Tarweed Awakening Corvallis joins a collective of other Willamette Valley communities in the Kalapuya homeland who each celebrate a specific Kalapuya first food at the time in the seasonal round when it is most significant as a food source. The concept originated with David Harrelson to honor and support a diversity of  traditional Kalapuya food sources. McMinnville now has a Camas Festival in May and Salem has an Oakfest in October.

 

Co-sponsors include OSU Indigenous Studies Program, Corvallis Sustainability Coalition, Tarweed Folk School, Wild Yeast Bakery and Corvallis Museum. For further details, contact Dave Eckert at dec...@willamettewatershed.com.

 

Dave Eckert

Corvallis Sustainability Coalition Water Action Team

www.sustainablecorvallis.org/action-teams/water

dec...@willamettewatershed.com