Harwood Hall at Chemawa with Professor David G. Lewis

Duration: 1 hrs (30 min setup / breakdown)

Professor David G. Lewis presents on Chemawa Indian School and its superintendent, Harwood Hall. Hall and his wife, Rose, collected and used Native culture and students to elevate themselves socially in society. At the same time Hall was in charge of education of Native students, and federal education amounted to assimilation, creating the irony of Hall administering the destruction of the cultural traditions and arts of the next generations of Native peoples. How the Halls operated at Chemawa and Sherman schools is addressed.

David G. Lewis, PhD, is a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, a descendant of the Takelma, Chinook, Molalla, and Santiam Kalapuya peoples of western Oregon. David has engaged in research on the tribal histories of Northwest Coastal peoples, specializing in the Western Oregon Tribes. David served as the director of the Southwest Oregon Research Project Collection at the UO, and was the Culture Department manager of the Grand Ronde Tribe for 8 years. David has a PhD in anthropology from the University of Oregon (2009) and teaches full time in Anthropology and Indigenous Studies at OSU. 

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