THIS IS KALAPUYAN LAND

“It was the museum’s cornerstone display: a long-term exhibit on the history of the Indigenous Kalapuya, the original inhabitants of large swaths of land in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. For more than 15 years, “This Kalapuya Land,” at the Washington County Museum in Portland, presented a distorted narrative that was criticized for trafficking in stereotype, sugarcoating settler-colonialism, and treating Native life as past. “It wasn’t made for people in the tribe but for their white audience, for people obsessed with pioneer culture,” Steph Littlebird  (Grand Ronde)