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Chinook Indian Nation’s struggle Fact meets iction at Beach Books
SEASIDE — Fact will meet
Buzz worked at The Weather
detailed in new documentary ilm iction
when author Bonnie
Channel in Atlanta, Georgia,
‘Promised Land’
examines issues
of sovereignty,
federal recognition
ASTORIA — The social jus-
tice documentary “Promised
Land” will make its Oregon
premiere Saturday, Sept. 10
at the Liberty Theater.
The ilm chronicles the
history of the lower Colum-
bia River’s Chinook Indian
Nation as well as Seattle’s
Duwamish tribe, telling the
story of how both tribes
helped settlers and remain in-
tegral to Northwest heritage.
As both tribes, and
hundreds of others like them
across North America, strug-
gle against those who tell
them they don’t exist, the ilm
examines a larger problem in
FILM
SCREENING
1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10
Liberty Theater
1203 Commercial St.,
Astoria
ticketswest.com
$10 general, $8 seniors
the way that the government
and society look at indige-
nous sovereignty today.
Doors open at 12:30 p.m.,
and the screening will begin
at 1 p.m. The ilmmakers
will be in attendance.
Council members from
the Chinook Indian Nation
will be present to sing, drum,
and share about the Chi-
nook’s history and future. A
rafle with items from local
businesses and items crafted
by tribal members will take
place after the ilm.
Proceeds from the rafle
and a portion of ticket sales
will go to support the Chi-
nook Indian Nation.
Tickets are $10 for
general admission and $8
for seniors and military.
Tickets can be purchased
at ticketswest.com/events/
promised-land/185000 or by
calling the Liberty Theater’s
box ofice at 503-325-5922.
The screening is spon-
sored by the Columbia River
Maritime Museum. The ilm
was produced by Tall Firs
Cinema. It will be released
in select theaters this fall as
well as several ilm festivals.
For more information,
call the box ofice or reach
out to the ilm company at
promisedlanddoc.com
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”roses”, monotype by marie powell
Henderson joins novelist
H.W. “Buzz” Bernard in a
conversation about earth-
quakes, tsunamis and the
Cascadia Subduction Zone.
Henderson’s book “The
Next Tsunami: Living on
a Restless Coast” tells the
story of how scientists came
to understand the Casca-
dia Subduction Zone — a
fault line off the coast that
stretches from Vancouver
Island, B.C., down through
Cape Mendocino, Califor-
nia, that’s capable of produc-
ing earthquakes even larger
than the 2011 Tohoku quake
in Japan. Bernard’s novel
“Cascadia” imagines such
an earthquake and tsuna-
mi hitting a ictionalized
version of Manzanita. Both
authors have done extensive
research on the subject.
The discussion will be
held at 7 p.m. Monday,
Sept. 12 in the Loft at Beach
Books, which is located at
616 Broadway.
Henderson’s varied jour-
nalism career has included
newspaper and magazine
writing and editing (she is
a former Sunset magazine
editor), health care commu-
nications, and researching
and writing interpretive
signage for parks and wild-
life refuges. Today she is
primarily focused on explor-
ing the intersection of the
natural world and the human
experience close to home.
She was the recipient of a
writing fellowship residency
at Playa.
In addition to “The Next
Tsunami,” she has written
“Strand: An Odyssey of
Paciic Ocean Debris” and
two hiking books. She is
also a major contributor to
“The Wild Edge: Freedom to
Roam the Paciic Coast.”
Henderson serves as
communications coordina-
tor for North Coast Land
Conservancy and is active as
a volunteer with the Coali-
tion of Oregon Land Trusts,
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Bonnie Henderson is the au-
thor of “The Next Tsunami.”
SUBMITTED PHOTO
H. W. “Buzz” Bernard is the au-
thor of the novel “Cascadia.”
Northwest Coast Trails Coa-
lition, CoastWatch (Oregon
Shores Conservation Coali-
tion) and the Oregon Com-
munity Foundation. When
she is not on the coast, she is
at home in Eugene.
“The Next Tsunami“
begins and ends in Seaside,
arguably the Northwest town
with the most to lose from
an earthquake and tsunami.
It focuses on meteorologist
Alfred Wegener and geolo-
gist Brian Atwater as well
as Seaside geologist Tom
Horning and the charged in-
tersection of science, human
nature, and public policy.
Born in Eugene and
raised in Portland, Bernard
is a best-selling, award-win-
ning novelist. His debut
novel, Eyewall, which one
reviewer called a “per-
fect summer beach read,”
was released in May 2011
and went on to become a
number-one best seller in
Amazon’s Kindle Store.
Before becoming a novelist,
as a senior meteorologist for
13 years.
Prior to that, he served
as a weather oficer in the
U.S. Air Force for over three
decades. He attained the
rank of colonel and received,
among other awards, the
Legion of Merit. His “air-
borne” experiences include
a mission with the Air Force
Reserve Hurricane Hunters,
air drops over the Arctic
Ocean and Turkey, and a
stint as a weather oficer
aboard a Tactical Air Com-
mand airborne command
post (C-135).
In the past, he’s provided
ield support to forest ire
ighting operations in the
Paciic Northwest, spent a
summer working on Alas-
ka’s arctic slope, and served
two tours in Vietnam. Vari-
ous other jobs, both civilian
and military, have taken him
to Germany, Saudi Arabia
and Panama.
He’s a native Oregonian
and attended the University
of Washington in Seattle
where he earned a bache-
lor’s degree in atmospheric
science; he also studied
creative writing.
Released in July, Ber-
nard’s novel “Cascadia”
imagines an earthquake and
tsunami hitting a fictional-
ized version of Manzanita.
In the book, geologist
Rob Elwood has studied
the Cascadia Subduction
Zone for years. Now he’s
having repeated nightmares
that the subduction zone
is about to rupture, that
a cataclysm is imminent.
Knowing he’s placing his
reputation and career at
risk, he goes public with
his premonitions.
His warnings are met
with derision and ridicule,
and Rob fears he’s lost it all.
But in a stunning turnabout,
it’s not his career he must
struggle to save, but his life
and the lives of those around
him.