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Wisdom provided services to thousands of individuals, families and communities within our local, regional and national community during 2016. We are recipients of the Riffle Award from Johnson Creek Watershed Council and the Force of Nature from The Intertwine...
DISCOVERING OUR STORY TELEVISION PROGRAM AIRS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5TH AT 1:00 PM.
Special guest for our December 4 Discovering Our Story Television Program is Patricia Gibson (Comanche/Creek/Seminole), Tribal Liaison for the City of Portland. In her position, Gibson serves as the first point of contact for city officials, bureaus and the tribal...
AN EVENING OF NORTHWEST INDIAN STORYTELLING
Wisdom of the Elders and the Northwest Indian Storytellers Association are excited to announce plans for our eleventh annual Northwest Indian Storytelling events. Two special events are being held on Friday afternoon and evening, February 17, 2017 in Portland, OR. The...
NATIVE YOUTH FILM WINS FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS
Wisdom’s Native youth film, “The Salmon People Are At Risk,” won best Youth Documentary Short and runner up Best Youth Directing at the Tulalip Tribe’s Film Festival in September according to Lena Jones, MaOM, Education Curator at the Tulalip Tribe’s Hibulb Cultural...
ERICHA’S HUCKLEBERRY PROJECT SELECTED FOR FILM FESTIVAL COMPETITION
Ericha Casey’s film production, “Ericha’s Huckleberry Project” has been selected by the Pechanga Tribe of California to be screened at their upcoming film festival competition. Ericha was one of four emerging Native filmmakers who received film production training...
VOLUNTEERS WORK WITH WISDOM WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT’S TEAM AT ZENGER
Wisdom Workforce Development interns are continuing to plant Native species in the buffer below Zenger Farm, the organic farm and Urban Grange on SE Foster Road. The environmental assessments and the plant design were developed this past year by Wisdom’s cohort of...
WISDOM TO RECEIVE FORCE OF NATURE AWARD
Wisdom was honored by The Intertwine Alliance in October with a Force of Nature Award. We received their Equity and the Environment award on Tuesday, October 18 at a special luncheon at The Oregon Zoo prior to their annual Fall Summit 2016. See:...
NORTHWEST INDIAN STORYTELLING FESTIVAL SCHEDULED FOR FEBUARY IN 2017
Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. (Wisdom) and The Northwest Indian Storytellers Association (NISA) warmly invites our friends throughout the Pacific Northwest for an evening of Native American storytelling. A series of events will be held in Portland on Friday, February 17,...
TIM KEENAN BURGESS JOINS WISDOM:
We are excited to report that Tim Keenan Burgess (Paiute, Shoshone) was hired as Wisdom’s’ Multimedia Coordinator in September. Tim received his Associates of Applied Science in Multimedia and a second Associates degree in Video Production from Portland Community...
WISDOM WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT UPDATE:
Wisdom Workforce Development recruited its second cohort of 8 Native American adults in September. The team is learning habitat restoration during morning classroom sessions followed by afternoon service learning in the 50-foot buffer at Zenger Farm, in Johnson Creek...