Tarweed Awakening Corvallis - Saturday at 1:00 -4:00 pm

[David Eckert]

Did you know that Sawala (William Hartless), the revered Ampinefu Kalapuya who dictated all of the information we have on the people who lived here for a long, long time was born in South Corvallis, purportedly in a Tarweed patch?

 

Tarweed Awakening Corvallis

The Plant, The Person, The Place

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

 

You are invited to the Tarweed Awakening Corvallis. Champinefu means the Place of the people of Pinefu (Marys River).

 

Tarweed Awakening Corvallis will help us all learn about:

• Tarweed (asawal), a critical first food of the Ampinefu Kalapuya.
• Sawala (AKA William Hartless), the person, named after asawal (Tarweed) and left us the information we currently know of the local Ampinefu Kalapuya people.
• Sawala (AKA Shawala) Point (named after the person who was named for the Tarweed plant) at the confluence of the Pinefu (Marys) River and the Willamette River.

 

Tarweed Awakening Corvallis will have four venues for its first year:

1:15 pm & 2:15 pm  - Tours of Shawala Point, leave from Wild Yeast Bakery

 

1:00-3:00 pm - Indigenous Tarweed practices related to Tarweed at Wade Hardware, 2nd and Adams.

1:00-3:00 pm, Mystery of 2 Men with the Same Name at the Corvallis Museum, 2^nd and Adams.

 

3:00 -3:30 pm – Three Short Presentations at Wild Yeast Bakery

• Sawal – The Plant
• Sawala – The Person
• Sawala Point – The Place

 

How to participate:

The Awakening is free and open to the public. There is no registration, so just show up. Oh, and it will be hot, so bring water to drink.

• Park at the large City parking lot at Western Ave. and 2^nd Street.
• Start at Wild Yeast Bakery.  648 SW 2^nd Street & B Avenue with outdoor tents featuring displays and greeters to help get you oriented and started.

 

Contact Dave Eckert at dec...@willamettewatershed.com if you have questions.

 

Awakening co-sponsors include:

• OSU Indigenous Studies Program
• Corvallis Sustainability Coalition
• Tarweed Folk School
• Wild Yeast Bakery
• Corvallis Museum

 

Dave Eckert

Corvallis Sustainability Coalition Water Action Team

www.sustainablecorvallis.org/action-teams/water

dec...@willamettewatershed.com