Eugene Johnson's blog

Due to one technical difficulty after another as well as when I have time to make it to KBOO there aren't any computers available with Audio, I will no longer be podcasting "Tillicum Wawa: Voices of the People." I apologize for any inconvenience.

The Angry Indian Minute 4-7-11

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Can I Buy You a Drink?

By Eugene Johnson

About a third of the time I mention alcohol or make a joke about drinking to a white man, they

Announcements 4-7-11

Are you looking for housing? If so, join the Housing Seekers’ Circle provided by the Native American Rehabilitation Association. You’ll learn about housing options, subsidized housing, long term housing, reasonable accommodations, and new opportunities. The Housing Seekers’ Circle meets Thursdays from 2-3pm at the Tate Topo Group Room in the Tate Topo Building, 1310 SW 17^th St. in Portland.

News 4-7-11

After almost a century, a Lake Superior band of Chippewa is just weeks away from getting part of their tribal home back. The U.S. Department of Interior has agreed to return 15 acres of land on Wisconsin Point in Superior, land taken from the Fond du Lac Band in 1918, when tribal members were evicted from their village and treated as trespassers. Documents filed with the Department of the Interior say U.S. Steel wanted to build ore docks there, and the village and Indian graveyards were in their way.

Pics from Gone Fishin'

Boarding School Generations

WSU VANCOUVER OFFERS TWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBIT, "BOARDING SCHOOLS
GENERATIONS"

VANCOUVER, Wash. - The Department of history and the College of Liberal
Arts at Washington State University Vancouver will present a two-day
symposium, "Boarding Schools Generations," from 7 - 9 p.m. March 30 - 31
in the Administration building, room 110.