[OR_Archaeology] ARCHAEOLOGY CELEBRATION EVENTS SLATED AT SMITH ROCK

[Susan White]

ARCHAEOLOGY CELEBRATION EVENTS SLATED AT SMITH ROCK

A special Oregon 150 series of Oregon Archaeology Celebration
presentations at Smith Rock State Park begins Oct. 2 with a look at
the
cultural effects of early Pacific Northwest fur trading.

Titled “The Early Fur Trade Era and its Impact on Northwest
Indigenous Populations,” the lecture is the first of five Friday
evening programs dedicated to Oregon's sesquicentennial. Open to the
public with free admission, all will be from 7-8:30 p.m. in the
park’s
visitor center, 10260 NE Crooked River Drive. 

Kenneth Ames, professor and chair of Anthropology at Portland State
University, is the first guest lecturer.  The other 2009
presentations:

Oct. 9 - “The Lost Meet Wagon Train of 1845,” by Steve Lent,
assistant director of the Bowman Museum in Prineville;
Oct. 16 - “The Barlow Road: At the End of the Oregon Trail,” by
Roger Riolo, regional director of the National Association of
Interpretation;
Oct. 23 - “The Coming of the White Man: The Impact on the Indigenous
Populations,” by Wilson Wewa, member of the Warm Springs Tribal
Council and a Paiute elder;
Oct. 30 - “The Black Hats in Western Oregon: A Military History of
Oregon Forts 1855-1865,” by OSU professor David Brauner.

For more information, contact Paul Patton at 541-923-7551.