Oregon Schools Slowly Rolling Out Indigenous Studies Curriculum . News | OPB
Oregon Schools Slowly Rolling Out Indigenous Studies Curriculum . News | OPB
Oregon Schools Slowly Rolling Out Indigenous Studies Curriculum
by Elizabeth Miller Follow OPB Sept. 9, 2019 6 a.m. | Updated: Sept. 9, 2019 9:31 a.m. | Myrtle Creek, Ore.
Inside a room at the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians’ new tribal community center are three framed sketch drawings by a Native artist.
K’Ehleyr McNulty, the tribe’s youth development specialist, pointed to a drawing of a traditional Cow Creek home — a plankhouse, with planks partially in the ground.
“That keeps you warmer in the winter and cooler in the summertime,” McNulty explained.
Another sketch depicted life near the river. A third showed a woman cooking camas root. McNulty said the images will be a part of a local lesson on traditional ways of living and the technologies the Cow Creek people used.
“Just because it happened in the past doesn’t mean it was primitive,” McNulty said.
Oregon Schools Slowly Rolling Out Indigenous Studies Curriculum
by Elizabeth Miller Follow OPB Sept. 9, 2019 6 a.m. | Updated: Sept. 9, 2019 9:31 a.m. | Myrtle Creek, Ore.
Inside a room at the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians’ new tribal community center are three framed sketch drawings by a Native artist.
K’Ehleyr McNulty, the tribe’s youth development specialist, pointed to a drawing of a traditional Cow Creek home — a plankhouse, with planks partially in the ground.
“That keeps you warmer in the winter and cooler in the summertime,” McNulty explained.
Another sketch depicted life near the river. A third showed a woman cooking camas root. McNulty said the images will be a part of a local lesson on traditional ways of living and the technologies the Cow Creek people used.
“Just because it happened in the past doesn’t mean it was primitive,” McNulty said.
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