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

[David Eckert]

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 2nd Street & B Avenue)



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

a. Molly Carney - OSU Assistant Professor of Anthropology with an
emphasis on ethnobotany. Molly will present about Tarweed from a cultural
history perspective.
b. 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.
c. 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
<mailto:dec...@willamettewatershed.com> .



Dave Eckert

Corvallis Sustainability Coalition Water Action Team

<http://www.sustainablecorvallis.org/action-teams/water>
www.sustainablecorvallis.org/action-teams/water

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