Life and death, tradition and survival: a family directory from Adams to Young. -Kathryn Harrison, twenty-two years on Council for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, first woman Chair, and esteemed Tribal Elder.
This book is a must read for each and every tribal member.
Through her work, she has thereby created a tribal family tree.
June has worked many hard long years researching this data.
The author offers this book with the hope that it will prove to be a useful reference tool for others.
Living in the Great Circle describes the problems on the Reservation and the people who faced them.
In this way, it can be said this is a story both by the people and in honor of the people.
In writing their story, she leans heavily on their worldview.
Finding little published about the early history of the original people in Western Oregon and inspired by her Kalapuya and Paiute grandmother, the author turned to official Bureau of Indian Affairs reports, journals, and the reminiscences of Indian people to better understand what life was like for the first generation to call the Grand Ronde Reservation home.
Life and death, tradition and survival: a family directory from Adams to Young