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“Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People,” a book talk and celebration with Kari Norgaard and Ron Reed (Karuk)

Mar 4, 2020, 3:00 pm4:30 pm

Many Nations Longhouse

Free and open to the public

Light refreshments will be served

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Kari Norgaard (non-Native Professor of Sociology/Environmental Studies at University of Oregon) has engaged in environmental justice policy work with the Karuk Tribe since 2003. Norgaard is author of Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life and other publications on gender, race, and the sociology of emotions.

 

 

Image result for ron reed karukRon Reed Ron Reed s a traditional dipnet fisherman and a cultural ecologist for the Karuk Tribe. Located in Northern California on the Klamath River, the Karuk are one of the 18 California tribes without a ratified treaty, and thus, no reservation. Ron was born into a medicinal family and taught the traditions of the tribe from ceremonies to fishing.

 

For more information about the book, visit: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-acorns-feed-our-people/9780813584195