Today, this place known as Salem encompasses varied and diverse actions. It is a place of residence, employment, recreation and livelihoods. There is movement within this place and connection to others further afield. These same functions were in place prior to Euro-American settlement. This presentation will discuss the breadth of past settlement, use, and changes through time. The Santiam Kalapuya who know this place as home, have a long historic connection to this place, including the first village, attendees of Jason Lee’s Mission and Indian industrial school. That connection has been continuous through time to today.
About the Speaker: Briece is the manager of the Tribal Historic Preservation Office of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. He and his team work with federal and state partners to identify and protect cultural resources through the Tribe’s Homelands. For more than three decades Briece has been a professional archaeologist. In recent years he has endeavored to broaden cultural resources policies to include greater voice of those communities directly connected to places.
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