Celebrate 20 years
with wisdom of
the elders
Courtesy photos
Siletz Tribal Head Start students visit the Portland Area
Office on Feb. 28 to hear storyteller Ed Edmo (above) and
make puppets (left).
Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. (Wisdom)
will be 20 years old on April 19, 2013,
and the organization invites people to
share this night from 5-8 p.m. at the Billy
Frank Jr. Conference Center at Ecotrust as
it thanks the community for its support.
During the past 20 years, Wisdom has
completed numerous oral history record-
ing projects, three American Indian radio
series and 36 sets of culturally tailored
multimedia health and wellness curricula.
Seven years ago it formed the North-
west Indian Storytellers Association,
sponsored the annual Northwest Indian
Storytellers Festival and Emerging Tribal
Storytellers Workshops and hosted the
Turtle Island Storytellers Network.
Most recently, it founded Wisdom
Gardens at its offices at Kelly Butte House.
Mission
Wisdom of the Elders records,
preserves and shares Native
American oral history, cultural
arts, language concepts and
traditional ecological knowledge
of exemplary indigenous Elders,
storytellers and Tribal leaders.
Contact the Siletz Community
Dental Clinic if you experience den-
tal pain or a dental emergency. The
staff will do everything it can to see
you as soon as reasonably possible.
Check-in time is Monday-
Thursday from 8:30-9 a.m. and Fri-
day from 10-10:30 a.m. Afternoon
check-in time is Monday-Friday
from 1-1:30 p.m.
NAYA Spring Marketplace
Saturday, April 6
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
To be held at
The 20 Year Anniversary Celebration
will include music from Cedar Rose fea-
turing Nico Wind and Karen Kitchen, an
account of Wisdom’s history, storytelling
and a keynote address.
A silent auction and paddle-raising to
welcome new Friends of Wisdom will be
held to cover event expenses.
Wisdom extends special acknowl-
edgement to Ecotrust for the use of the
Billy Frank Jr. Conference Center at the
Ecotrust building (721 NW 9 th Ave. in
Portland, Ore.) and to New Seasons for
its generous food donations.
Wisdom also thanks Joe Cantrell for
more than a decade of compelling photo
images, Marc Anderson for graphic
design and all Friends of Wisdom, board
members, teams and volunteers from the
past 20 years.
The event is free, but seating is lim-
ited. Please RSVP at brownpapertickets.
com/event/337502.
Contact Lisa Lakes at lisawisdom-
elders@gmail.com for more information.
Native American Youth & Family Center
5135 NE Columbia Blvd., Portland, Ore.
In the main building
Contact:
Ryan Parker, Micro Enterprise Coach
503-288-8177, ext. 288 │ ryanpa@nayapdx.org
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April 2013
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