[OR_Archaeology] Cathlapotle Plankhouse Second Sunday Series Lecture

[John Pouley]

 "Wapato for the People" presented by Melissa Darby at 2pm.
Darby will discuss how Native People used this important resource. An
important new photograph of a Chinookan plankhouse will be shown as
well.Kids activities include wapato leaf prints.

Where: Cathlapotle Plankhouse, Carty Unit, Ridgefield NWR 28098 NW
Main Ave, Ridgefield, WA
For more information contact Katie Harrison at Katie_Harrison at fws.gov 
or 360-887-4106.

Wapato has been a food for people of the Northern Hemisphere since ancient times.
Ethnohistoric accounts describe wapato as an important root for the Native People
who lived on the Lower Columbia and Lower Fraser Rivers, where it was traded
from the freshwater estuaries out to the coast, and east to the mountains. This
root has also been found in archaeological sites in the Great Basin and in ancient
archaeological sites in Europe. It is also cultivated in Asia. In this presentation,
archaeologist Melissa Darby will describe the use of wapato in the world.




John O. Pouley
Oregon SHPO
Assistant State Archaeologist
725 Summer St NE Suite C
Salem, OR 97301
(503) 986-0675 Office
(503) 480-9164 Cell
(503) 986-0793 Fax
john.pouley at state.or.us
http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/ARCH/index.shtml


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