Indigenous Placekeeping through Tea Culture
David Eckert
You are invited to unique and paradigm-shifting webinar.
If you cannot attend at the webinar time, then just pre-register on the link provided below and you will receive a link to the raw recording of the webinar by November 15th. Then you can watch it whenever you like.
Wednesday November 12, 2025
Indigenous Placekeeping through Tea Culture
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Free Zoom Webinar
Registration required in advance at this link:
You may know English Tea Culture.
You may know Japanese Tea Culture.
But, you do not know Pacific Northwest Indigenous Tea Culture.
Join David Harrelson, Ampinefu Kalapuya and Cultural Resources Manager for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde on a Zoom webinar about Kalapuya ancestral teas and promising new uses that will assist Kalapuya to maintain their culture and their place in their homeland, the Willamette Valley.
David is one of few Indigenous tea growers and processors in the United States. This is a rare presentation and one you will not want to miss.
Co-sponsors are the Marys Peak Group of the Sierra Club, the Spring Creek Project, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, Corvallis Sustainability Coalition and the OSU School of Language, Culture and Society.
If you have any questions, just reply to me by email and I will do my best to respond.
Dave Eckert
Corvallis Sustainability Coalition Water Action Team
www.sustainablecorvallis.org/action-teams/water
dec...@willamettewatershed.com