Upcoming Bend symposium explores history of humans in Oregon’s Great Basin – KTVZ

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Historic Society, in partnership with the Deschutes County Historic Society and members of the Burns Paiute Tribe and Confederated Tribes of Heat Springs Indians, is internet hosting a two-day public symposium on the historical past of people within the Nice Basin area in Oregon, that includes talks by tribal knowledge-holders, anthropologists, and archaeologists. 

The symposium will happen on Saturday, Nov. 5 and Sunday, Nov. 6, from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., on the OSU-Cascades campus in Bend, and is free and open to everybody. Attendees can register for one or each days of the symposium right here; PDUs can be found for academics who attend.

Human beings have lived in, handed by, and had relationships with the Nice Basin area for a minimum of 14,000 years — a time of serious transitions in local weather, species, and ecosystems, all of which resulted in altering lifeways for the folks. The “Human Expertise within the Oregon Nice Basin: Previous and Current Methods of Figuring out” symposium will characteristic displays by specialists who’ve researched and discovered in regards to the land, crops, animals, folks, and local weather of the area.

Discussions led by Wilson Wewa (Northern Paiute) and Diane Teeman (Burns Paiute) will body every day of the symposium, which will likely be stuffed with displays in regards to the latest archaeological analysis and analyses, partnership initiatives, and on-line databases which are serving to construct information in regards to the historic and ongoing human experiences within the Nice Basin.

“Proof of a deep historical past of people within the Nice Basin is current within the tales and tribal information shared by Paiute and Klamath peoples in addition to is seen in bodily reminders, corresponding to caches of instruments made for looking, gathering, and different utilitarian actions,” stated OHS Chief Program Officer Eliza Canty-Jones. “The work that tribal members have carried out to protect this historical past for millennia, in addition to the work archaeologists and anthropologists have performed in newer occasions, supply the general public complicated understandings of a number of the oldest recognized human historical past on the continent of North America.”

Featured displays are listed beneath; for presentation synopses and presenter bios, go to ohs.org/greatbasin.

Presentation Schedule

Every day of the symposium will embrace an introduction by Wilson Wewa (Northern Paiute) and a conclusion by Diane Teeman (Burns Paiute) 

Saturday, November 5

Paisley Caves Textiles: Fiber Arts and the Native Plant Choice within the Northern Nice Basin
Introduced by Elizabeth Kallenbach

The Antiquity of Smoking Pipes and Tobacco Use within the Northern Nice Basin
Introduced by Thomas J. Connolly

Seeds, Fruits, and Tubers: A Regional Perspective on Archaeological Plant Knowledge within the Northern Nice Basin
Introduced by Jaime L. Kennedy

Exploring Cultural Landscapes of Oregon’s Nice Basin Area
Introduced by Justin Rohde

Custom, Expertise, and Instructing: Collaborative Workshops between the Burns Paiute Tribe and College of Nevada, Reno’s Nice Basin Paleoindian Analysis Unit
Introduced by Geoffrey M. Smith, Diane Teeman, and Daniel O. Stueber

Sunday, November 6

Archaeology and the Human Expertise on the Paisley Caves within the Northern Nice Basin 
Introduced by Dennis Jenkins

Proof of Ice Age Chilly Adaptation in Oregon’s Nice Basin and The way it Can Inform Challenges of Future Local weather Change 
Introduced by Richie Rosencrance

Modeling Indigenous Land Use Patterns within the Northwestern Nice Basin on the Finish of the Final Ice Age 
Introduced by Erica J. Bradley and Geoffrey M. Smith

The Roles and Analysis of the Museum of Pure and Cultural Historical past Archaeology Subject College 
Introduced by Katelyn McDonough, Dennis Jenkins, Richie Rosencrance, and Geoffrey Smith

In regards to the Oregon Historic Society

For greater than a century, the Oregon Historic Society has served because the state’s collective reminiscence, preserving an enormous assortment of artifacts, pictures, maps, manuscript supplies, books, movies, and oral histories. Our analysis library, museum, digital platforms & web site (www.ohs.org), instructional programming, and historic journal make Oregon’s historical past open and accessible to all. We exist as a result of historical past is highly effective, and since a historical past as deep and wealthy as Oregon’s can’t be contained inside a single story or perspective.