2023 Champinefu Series: Willamette River: Ancestral Highway

Please register here for this free, virtual event: https://bit.ly/2023champinefuseries1

Join the kickoff event for this year’s Champinefu Lecture Series by tuning into a virtual release of a video about Canoe Culture at Grand Ronde and the Tribe’s relationship to the Willamette River. Conversation panel to follow with Canoe skippers Bobby Mercier and Brian Krehbiel as well as members of the Grand Ronde Canoe Family in conversation with David Harrelson, Grand Ronde Cultural Resources Department Manager.

About the 2023 Champinefu 7th Annual Series: Champinefu is the Kalapuya name of the lower Marys River valley in what is now known as Philomath and Corvallis in Benton County. This year, the series will include two webinars and one in-person program. Content for the series is planned and presented in partnership with the Grand Ronde Cultural Resources Department. Event logistics are organized by the Marys Peak Group Sierra Club. The webinars are hosted by the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. Additional co-sponsors include: the Spring Creek Project, Corvallis Sustainability Coalition and OSU School of Language, Culture & Society.

More events in this series:

• Thursday, November 9th: Fire is Life: Living in Relation with Indigenous Fire Practices of Western Oregon (virtual event)
• Tuesday, December 12th: Winter Storytelling: Indigenous Stories of Place (in-person event)