History Pub – Reconstructing Traditional Indigenous Cultures & Lifeways in the Willamette Valley with Dr. David G. Lewis

McMenamins and Friends of Historic Forest Grove present  

History Pub: Reconstructing Traditional Indigenous Cultures and Lifeways in the Willamette Valley  

Presented by Dr. David G. Lewis 

Grand Lodge Theater
3505 Pacific Ave

Forest Grove, Oregon 97116

Wednesday June 11th, 2025
Doors 6:00PM / Event 7:00PM

David G. Lewis, Ph.D., presents new discoveries on the importance of cultural fire and water in the environment and shares ways of understanding how Indigenous people lived and thrived in the valley. Dr. Lewis is an assistant professor of Anthropology and Indigenous Studies at OSU, and a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and descendant of the Takelma, Chinook, Molalla, and Santiam Kalapuya peoples of western Oregon.