Wisdom of the Elders, Inc
Wisdom of the Elders, Inc
A letter from the Executive Director – Teresa Montana
The 2024 Willamette Week's Give!Guide was a success!
We’re thrilled to announce that Willamette Week’s 2024 Give!Guide turned out wonderfully thanks to all of your. We are beyond grateful to be a part of this fantastic community-driven initiative. The Give!Guide is an amazing opportunity to support our mission, and every donation counts—no matter the size. Thank You Friends of Wisdom.
The 2024 Willamette Week's Give!Guide was a success!
We’re thrilled to announce that Willamette Week’s 2024 Give!Guide turned out wonderfully thanks to all of your. We are beyond grateful to be a part of this fantastic community-driven initiative. The Give!Guide is an amazing opportunity to support our mission, and every donation counts—no matter the size. Thank You Friends of Wisdom.
Indigenous Archive Initiative
Indigenous Archive Initiative
Our Mission
Wisdom records, preserves, and shares oral history, cultural arts, language concepts, and traditional ecological knowledge of exemplary Native American elders, storytellers, and scientists in collaboration with diverse institutions, agencies, and organizations. Our vision: Native American cultural sustainability, multimedia education, and cultural reconciliation.
Wisdom Newsletter
Connecting Wisdom: Summer Updates and Exciting Opportunities Await
Greetings Friends of Wisdom, We hope this finds you all well and enjoying your summer. Happy Summer Solstice! Wisdom has been very busy picking up our team and programs after this pandemic, and we are grateful to be back up and able to share! We want to say thank you...
Native Wisdom Documentary Film Update
Wisdom’s multimedia team is continuing its work on an educational film shared with the forestry service, and also filming a program that features a variety of Grandmothers stories.
Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge: An Internship program
Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. is pleased to announce the (ITEK Program) Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge. This program is designed for interns and focuses on traditional ecological knowledge passed down from generations.
Wisdom Projects, Community Action, & Events
Read more about what Wisdom of the Elders is doing in the community.
Fall, a beautiful time for giving
Fall is an exciting time of the year at Wisdom of the Elders. We are busy with our vision and mission; to record, preserve and share Native American oral history, cultural arts, language concepts, the Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Indigenous elders, scientists,...
Wisdom Internship Traditional Ecological Knowledge Day on Zenger Farm
This past 2021 spring the Wisdom of the Elders, Inc WABI & WWD Internships concluded their program of traditional ecological knowledge. The program was from March 15th, 2021 through the week of June 7th, and met three days a week either virtually or at various...
The Native Wisdom Documentary Film Series Premieres New Docs at the Northwest Film Center
Wisdom of the Elders, a Native-run, Oregon non-profit, in partnership with the Northwest Film Center, will premiere two new one-hour programs in its Native Wisdom Documentary Film Series about today’s changing climate and how it is affecting Native Oregonians’...
Wisdom Workforce Partnership with the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services
For the past six months, Wisdom’s social and economic venture, Wisdom Workforce LLC has partnered with the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services to conduct valuable conservation work in local parks and other ecosystems. They have learned much from the guidance and...
Oregon Cultural Trust benefits from your contributions to Wisdom
As an eligible cultural nonprofit, most of your individual donors can participate in and claim the Cultural Tax Credit. This is a special benefit unique to Oregon cultural donors; it prioritizes Oregon’s cultural organizations at the state level. Surprisingly, studies...
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Made possible with support from these generous Partners, Funders, and sponsors
Made possible with support from these generous Partners, Funders, and sponsors
Notes from Wisdom’s Executive Director:
Hello to our supporters, community, and partners,
We hope you had a wonderful holiday season with your loved ones!
First and foremost, we would like to express our heartfelt Thanks to all who generously contributed to our Year-End Fund Raiser via GiveGuide!
Thank you to our first-time donors and longstanding partners for supporting our impactful work for our communities and the land we share. Your support is always significant in helping us pursue our mission. We could not do as much as we do without you!
As we prepare for a new season and the year ahead, we know our work is for all of us, not only for today but also for our children and future generations. Though this past year was challenging, we are stronger, more determined, and prepared to continue our mission.
We are building our programs to be even more impactful and are committed to helping create healthy land and natural spaces for our community.
We endeavor to instill this commitment and knowledge in our internship participants by offering classroom and hands-on field training.
As for our Multimedia program, we continue working on the Indigenous Archive Initiative. Which involves the digitization of 100K plus hours of analog recordings. We have partnered with BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition) for our archival digitization. We will continue to work with Open Signal Community Media Center to facilitate our Multimedia Internship program.
We are also working towards implementing our new Indigenous Storytellers Apprenticeship and Culture Keepers Program events.
The primary mission of our Media Program is to continue recording and documenting the voices of our Indigenous elders, community educators, and tribes, helping them preserve their treasured knowledge. Please contact us if you know anyone in your family who may have contributed to the archives thus far. We are working to build and renew relationships with those who have already contributed to the archives that we are preserving for future generations.
Currently, Wisdom is partnering with OMSI to create the new Center for Tribal Nations on the Water Front. Part of the plan is to have an auditorium, classrooms, and, tentatively, a Multimedia Studio for production and presentation purposes, where Indigenous people can also utilize Wisdoms Professional Media services.
Thank you for staying in touch. Please get in touch with us if you or anyone you know would like to join our ITEK or MultiMedia Internships, which are offered in the Spring and Fall.
Wishing you all a joy-filled and prosperous year ahead,
With gratitude,