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London Sance Society by Sarah Penner Read this one for my book club. The alternating narrative made the story a bit hard to follow (murder in the fake seance work of the late 19th century) and the authors seem to have left no plot device unused.
David G. Lewis is a specialist in the history of Kalapuyans and other Western Oregon tribes which he has been studying for more than two decades. A member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, a descendant of the Santiam, Takelma and Chinook peoples, he has an extensive record of publications and collaborative projects with regional scholars, tribes, local governments, and communities. Lewis has a PhD in anthropology from the University of Oregon and is an Assistant Professor of anthropology and Indigenous studies at Oregon State University. He is a former Cultural Department Manager of the Grande Ronde Tribe.
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David G. Lewis: This took some time. I was initially only studying Grand Ronde tribal histories then some 12 years ago branched out to all western Oregon and so much opened up for me. The histories of all the tribes and reservations are linked in many ways. I found that I could not study only one tribe, because then the history did not include the interrelationships we all have in treaties, US Indian policies, and events of the time.
DGL: I think changes come when I make new discoveries or gain a new perspective. Two years ago I found a bunch of census counts most scholars had never used or perhaps seen before. These became available when UO and OHS Library put the Palmer papers online. This find opened up the events of 1855 and 1856 and showed me the exact daily movement of the tribes from living in their traditional lands to the reservations at Grand Ronde. From this my ideas changed, and this has begun to change the written history of the tribes. Then about 3 years ago I found 2 new pages belonging to the Willamette Valley Treaty- never mentioned before in scholarship. This brought 5 tribes to the treaty in microfilm records, and this opened the history of treaty-making a lot. Some 15 years ago I found the Grand Ronde Passbook in the Siletz collection at OHS library, and it seems that now whenever I delve into an archive, I find something new that can answer key questions in Tribal history. Just recently the National Archives made their maps and treaty files available for digital download online, I have not fully investigated this, but the maps are in color now, in high definition, and new placenames and details are emerging that can address Native history. As new resources are available, made available through technology and innovation this opens up the possibilities of research quite a bit, makes it easier with less barriers to finding the actual history. I, no longer must travel to archives to find documents, there is now a good record online, and this is dramatically altering the ways history can be researched.
DGL: Yes, exactly. I initially wanted this to be a text for high school students, but the book can easily be for college. I also wanted to not have too much academic jargon, a more narrative style with some personal perspectives in it. It is a more accessible text for a wider audience. I have heard from readers that this is appreciated.
EB: You document some instances in which there are parallel histories of events, different accounts from different tribes or different groups of settlers. What can we learn from those parallel histories?
DGL: For some years now, I have been working on an edited volume Kalapuyans of Western Oregon with fellow editors Tom Connelly and Henry Zenk. This volume will have essays from a number of scholars, archaeologists, linguists, historians, both tribal and non-tribal. I want to submit the manuscript to OSU press next summer. I have additional histories of the Kalapuyans in this volume which is a bit more academically focused. I also have plans for a reworking of my dissertation to tell the history of termination from the tribal perspective. I have had a hard time finding many of those perspectives but I know where many oral accounts are now.
DGL: Thank you for reaching out, I think this book will make waves in Tribal history and I know the histories of the tribes here will never be the same. I feel in many ways like I am giving back to the community for the tribe supporting my education, and to other tribes who worked with me on projects throughout the years. As a Native person I feel a strong responsibility to work on behalf of the Native community. And I think this book does that.
TM: Believe it or not, all the crimes are based on actual events, with the exception of the helicopter heist at the opening of the book, which is plausible but something I made up. A number of the museum break-ins referenced in the rest of the novel did occur, and some experts in the art community suggested a state-sponsored connection at the time that was never proven or pursued, for obvious political reasons. As for gadgets and tech twists, such as genetically engineered monkeys, a quick online search shows similar experiments were conducted a few years ago, along with some unsanctioned tests involving gene splicing of human DNA, which is both disconcerting and bizarre, so I decided to bring a bit of Mary Shelley to the mystery world, with a touch of Orwell added for good measure.
With over 13,000 hours of flight time, Stanley R. Luther knows his way around an airplane. After serving as an attach to Madagascar, Stan retired to the Pacific Northwest where he worked as a community college professor, flight instructor, and air ambulance pilot. He lives in the Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon where he enjoys a view of the local airport.
Ed Battistella: This month is the anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and you were a Lieutenant Colonel and one of the B-47 jet pilots on alert at the time after President Kennedy announced that the Soviets were deploying ballistic missiles in Cuba. Tell us about that experience?
A wide-ranging memoir that takes us from Oklahoma to World War II to newspaperdom, university life and the best-seller list. There are some poignant observations on war, ironic tales about being a reporter, and later a university administrator and professor at the University of New Mexico, and helpful advice about being a writer. The title is an accurate description.
Lehane captures the emotions and language of generational poverty and racism in his portrait of 1970s Dorchester and creates in Mary Pat Fennessy an unlikely avenger. The story and the morality play fit seamlessly.
Forsyth begins in a unique and clever way, with a fifty-some item annotated bibliography of what he has read on the topic, given the readers some scholarly context. Then he turns to a more or less chronology of philosophers and others thinking about truth and reason, from the Greeks to people like Sissela Bok, Daniel Kahneman, and Johnathan Haidt. Finally he applies his thinking to gain an understanding of why people resist or are impervious to the truth. It was an engaging and personal study by someone who has thought deeply about Truth and cares about it, and it will make readers think about their own conceptions of truth.
EB: One of the things that struck me early on was your comment that healers are motivated by wanting to understand as well as to cure. I had never though of their motivation that way. How did that realization come to you?
Christina Ward is an independent cultural historian of food and food history, exploring what we eat and why we eat it. She is the author of American Advertising Cookbooks-How Corporations Taught Us To Love, Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O, and Preservation-The Art and Science of Canning, Fermentation, and Dehydration.
CW: Holy Food is not an academic book (though I researched and wrote it with academic rigor) and is for general readers. I feel that images provide another form of information for readers to fully understand what people believe.
Thomas Dodson is an assistant professor and librarian at Southern Oregon University. His story collection, No Use Pretending, was selected by Gish Jen for the Iowa Short Fiction Prize and is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press.
Jay Schroder has taught high school in both traditional and alternative education settings for 24 years. During this time, he developed approaches to teaching that allow him to thrive in the challenging profession.
In 2021, the Oregon Council of Teachers of English (OCTE) awarded Schroder the High School English Teacher of Excellence Award, and in 2022, Jay received the High School Teacher of Excellence Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Jay Schroder is an affiliate faculty member at Southern Oregon University and has recently begun working with Southern Oregon Regional Educator Network (SOREN) as an Implementation Coach. Jay is also a certified instructor of Social Emotional Learning and Character Development and a sixth-degree black belt in karate.
Jay Schroder: Thank you, Ed. I wrote the book while teaching full time and leading teacher trainings during the summer and on weekends, so this has definitely been a high-effort labor of love. It means a great deal that you found the book impactful.
JS: Teachers show up every day, to do a tough job under extremely difficult conditions. How difficult is it? Well, according to the results of a 2023 Gallup Poll, conditions in K-12 education are so tough that K-12 employees are the most burned-out employees in America. And, among this group of K-12 employees, teachers are the most burned out. Incidentally, the second most burned out employees in America are people who work in colleges and universities.
JS: I wrote the first draft of the book in 4 months. Writing the book proposal and revising the book took an additional three years, and I worked on it every single day. So, the revision process actually took nine times as long as it took me to write the first draft. I kept a file that contained all of the big chunks I wrote and then cut from the book, and that file is now larger than the entire finished book. So, I learned something about the kind of labor involved in writing the best book I possibly could.
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