Roberta Conner discusses Celilo Falls, traditional lifeways, and how oral traditions carry important truths in a episode of the Confluence Podcast. This discussion took place at a Story Gathering in Lewiston, ID.
Roberta Conner, Director of the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, was raised in Cayuse Country and spent most of her formative years on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Her work as an author, speaker, local and national leader, and a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation earned her the 2007 Buffett Award.
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Story Gathering at Lewiston, ID. From left to right: Josiah Pinkham, Silas Whitman, and Roberta Conner.