[OR_Archaeology] PSU First Thursday Speaker

[POULEY John * OPRD]

Dear all,

Please join us this Thursday, December 3, at 4pm for our monthly PSU First Thursday Speaker series.

This month our speaker is Douglas Deur (Portland State University), who is sharing the evolution of his applied research over time in his talk: To Be Determined: An Applied Anthropologist's Search for a Compelling Topic. Talk details below.

We will meet virtually via zoom.

Please follow this link to register for the talk: https://pdx.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlfumvpjwtGtdtfEbT7S75HpMSp42TMah3

I look forward to seeing you all there.  Best wishes,

Shelby

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Douglas Deur (Portland State University)

 The national parks of the United States protect some of the United States' most prominent landmarks and environmentally sensitive lands; they also served as early precedents for parks and other protected lands elsewhere in the world.  In sequestering these special places, early conservationists and the National Park Service sought to preserve in a "natural" condition many places and habitats that were, in truth, occupied, used, managed, and in many cases created by Native American communities. Manifesting nationalist agendas, and rooted in Victorian conceptualizations of wildness, new national parks curtailed Native access in myriad ways, while creating colonized recreational spaces within lands of enduring ethnobotanical significance to tribes. Over a century later, the foundational logic of early conservation efforts still sparks conflicts over Native access to anthropogenic plant communities, as well as the management and representation of these culturally keystone places. Recent interdisciplinary research, guided by the knowledge and perspectives of Native knowledge-holders, has helped to reshape our ways of understanding the enduring relationships between Native communities and the plant habitats they have sustained, while also helping to overturn a century or more of federal policy that excludes Native harvesters. This presentation draws lessons from several national park cases, including plant communities traditionally used and managed by tribes at what is today Yosemite National Park, Crater Lake National Park, and other parks of the Northwest.

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Shelby Anderson (she/her)
Associate Professor
Anthropology Department
Portland State University
ashelby at pdx.edu<mailto:shelby.anderson at pdx.edu>
www.shelbylanderson.com<http://www.shelbylanderson.com/>
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