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Trauma and Healing Audio Described
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IMAGES and TEXT: Trauma and Healing IMAGE 1 of 2: Map
DESCRIBING: A small, square map of the Columbia River basin, the ancestral homelands of the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla Peoples, and the Confederated Tribal boundary of the Umatilla Reservation.
SYNOPSIS: Map of the Pacific Northwest with state and national boundaries imposed. The Columbia and Snake Rivers are shown flowing into the Pacific Ocean. A large light brown shaded area marks the Columbia River Basin, a second, smaller shaded area shows the ancestral homeland of the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla Peoples, and an even smaller dark brown area shows the present-day reservation for these three tribes. This map is for general geographic orientation and interpretation and is not meant for wayfinding.
IN-DEPTH DESCRIPTION: This north-oriented map of the Columbia River Basin shows the Pacific Northwest area in light brown shaded relief. States include Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, and British Columbia labeled north of the Canadian border. The blue line of the Columbia River winds down from British Columbia to the north and turns west before ending at the Pacific Ocean on the left. The Snake River begins on the lower right and winds west, ending at the Columbia River near Walla Walla Washington. Three areas are outlined and highlighted in shades of brown. The largest, lightest-colored area stretches in all directions from Pendleton, Oregon, and covers the entire Columbia River Basin including the Snake River. A much smaller and slightly darker area around Pendleton, labeled Ancestral Homelands, covers only a small portion of the Columbia River Basin in the south-central section. Within the Ancestral Homelands is a tiny area in a darker brown labeled Confederated Tribal Boundary and located just east of Pendleton Oregon.
CAPTION: In one lifetime, native lands shrunk from the entire Columbia River Basin to one plot of land per family in the dark brown area.
IMAGE 2 of 2: People standing side by side
DESCRIBING: Contemporary color photograph of a group of women of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
SYNOPSIS: A curved line descending into the distance from right to left with 20 women of mixed ages in a grassy field. The women wear colorful dresses, shawls, skirts, aprons, headscarves and hats, many holding colorful baskets. Many wear their hair in braids, several wear sunglasses, others squint, most are smiling. Their lower legs and feet are hidden by long tan grasses.
CAPTION: Plant gatherers from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Spring 2018
CREDIT: Confederated Umatilla Journal
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“All people are traumatized by this history. We all have to heal from trauma at some point. Not only the tribal side, but the nontribal side as well.”—wıyáapalašan̉may (Malissa Minthorn Winks), 2015
Those who lived and are buried here are central to this place. Their presence resonates through teachings, graves, and an atmosphere of sacredness. Others, buried elsewhere but forever connected to these events, are no less central. We continue to draw from their tragedy to learn and practice understanding and empathy.
The Cayuse people, one of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, remain strong and sovereign, applying tamáalwıt to the land and their lives.
“This site, these events, were catalysts . . . to the colonization of the Pacific Northwest, established the Oregon Territory, and brought in the treaties. To me, these events created the foundation for all that followed: these events reverberated through the lives of everyone then and continue to impact lives today.”—píitamyanon maqsmáqs (Phillip Cash Cash), 2015
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The Trauma and Healing section of the Whitman Mission NHS brochure audio described
Date Created
04/28/2022
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