Genocide Awareness

The People are Dancing Again

Wilkinson, Charles. The People are Dancing Again: The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon (2010) I first met Wilkinson at an Oregon History Lecture where he was talking  at a “Mark O. Hatfield” Distinguished Historians Forum on the history of the Siletz Tribe. Of course, as a Siletz member, I was rather interested, [...]

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Requiem for a People

Beckham, Stephen Dow. Requiem for a People: The Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen. 1971. Probably one of the first really depressing books I ever read. Part of the reason I became involved in “genocide awareness” work. This is a historical look at the Rogue Indian Wars in SW Oregon, and their forced, almost genocidal removal [...]

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Better Angels of Our Nature

The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined Steven Pinkerton Viking 2011 This book by Steven Pinker (The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate) is truly a tome. I’ve been reduced to actually having to buy a copy – I’m racking up library fines as I write,  there’s a long waiting list for this through [...]

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Portland Genocide Awareness Coalition

Recently I realized that I should pull together what I could from a ad hoc grass roots group I worked with in 2006-2009 called the Portland Genocide Awareness Coalition. the group did a week of events for Genocide Awareness for several years, and put together and sponsored a number of other events throughout that time. [...]

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What is Genocide?

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2006 53:24 This video is from 2006, I think, and was part of a week of events put together by an ad hoc grass roots group to do  “Genocide Awareness” each year in Portland. The group only lasted two or three  years, but did some interesting work. This is a panel in front of a  [...]

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