Preserving Our Culture and Traditions
This conversation explores the importance of cultural heritage and preserving languages, customs, and traditions while living in places where they may not be present. This conversation is for people who have emigrated from another county or people who are descendants of immigrants (up to the third generation) and are interested in reconnecting with their culture. We'll share stories about our experiences and explore the connections participants have—or may not have—with their roots. And we will reflect on how we might reconnect with our heritage when we feel the desire to do so.
Putting Down Roots
Denise Chin writes about nurturing cultural heritage in the garden.
Sweet Roots
Chelsea Yarnell explores how people in Tillamook County are recovering the stories and flavors of heritage apple trees.
Boarding School Inheritance
Nolan James Briden writes intergenerational trauma and incarceration in this excerpt from Prisons Have a Long Memory: Life Inside Oregon’s Oldest Prison, a collection of writing by prisoners at Oregon State Penitentiary.
Telling Our Story
May Saechao writes about how the Iu Mien community connects to history and traditions across time and distance.
Beyond Horses
Dani Nichols on rekindling a connection to the land and a way of life.