David G. Lewis is a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, of Oregon. He has a PhD from the University of Oregon (2009) and is assistant professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at Oregon State University. David served as Cultural Manager of the Grand Ronde Tribe, and Tribal museum designer, and Exhibits Curation manager for eight years, and while at the UO organized and managed the Southwest Oregon Research Project collection of ethnographic documents. David has conducted research on Oregon tribal history for some 25 years and has numerous publications in journals, and chapters in books. He is currently engaged in two publication projects, Tribal Stories of Western Oregon, that documents rare histories of western Oregon tribes during the colonization and settlement era, 1830s-1870s, and is lead editor of Kalapuyans of Western Oregon, a collaborative project with eighteen contributors. Additionally, David has researched and written over 470 essays for his blog, the Quartux Journal, ndnhistoryresearch.com, documenting tribal adjustments to colonization in the west. David conducts numerous presentations annually with community groups, at conferences, and at universities educating about tribes in the region, consults with local governments, and organizations on diversity, place naming, and land acknowledgements, and curates museum exhibits at local historical societies and museums. He is now engaged in researching ethnographic information about Culturally Modified Trees of the Middle Fork in the Willamette National Forest. David lives in Salem, OR with his wife Donna, and sons Saghaley and Inatye.
Selected Works:
- 2020. Lewis, David G. Restoring Indigenous Knowledge, Western Humanities Review, Fall.
- 2019. Lewis, David G. and Thomas J. Connolly. White American Violence on Tribal Peoples of the Oregon Coast. Oregon Historical Quarterly. Vol. 120(4). Winter.
- 2019. Lewis, David G. The Columbia River Maps and Meteorological Calculations of David Douglas: An Archival Discovery, Adam Matthews Blog. https://www.amdigital.co.uk/about/blog/item/columbia-river-maps-david-douglas.
- 2019 Lewis, David G. Part 2: The Columbia River Maps and Meteorological Calculations of David Douglas: An Archival Discovery, Adam Matthews Blog. https://www.amdigital.co.uk/about/blog/item/part-2-columbia-river-maps-david-douglas.
- 2014. Lewis, David G. Four Deaths: The Near Destruction of Western Oregon Tribes and Native Lifeways, Removal to the Reservation and Erasure from History. Oregon Historical Quarterly. Fall, Vol. 115(3):414-437.
- 2012. Lewis, David G., Eirik Thorsgard, and Chuck Williams. Chinookan Tribes of the Clackamas and Cascades: Oral Histories, Treaties, and Removal to the Grand Ronde Reservation. Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia, Eds. Robert Boyd, Kenneth Ames, and Tony Johnson. Pp. 307-325. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA