Port Angeles, WA–Peninsula College invites the public to participate in a dialogue titled "History and Future Considerations for What Is at Stake for Washington’s Native Nations," featuring Dr. Joshua Reid and Melvinjohn Ashue. This event will take place on April 4, 2024, from 12:35 pm to 1:25 pm at the Little Theater at the main campus. Participants unable to attend in person can join the livestream on Zoom.
Marking the 50th anniversary of the Boldt Decision, this installment of the Studium Generale lecture series will explore impacts of this crucial court case, which affirmed the fishing treaty rights of federally recognized tribes in Washington State. The conversation will highlight achievements made since the decision, delve into the challenges facing Western Washington's Native Nations and Indigenous communities, and envision prospects over the next fifty years.
Speakers will include Dr. Joshua L. Reid, a registered member of the Snohomish Indian Nation and renowned associate professor of American Indian Studies and History at the University of Washington, and Melvinjohn Ashue, a member of the Hoh Indian Tribe who brings an impressive academic and professional background and who works at Peninsula College as an Instructional Consultant.
Born and raised in Washington State, Dr. Joshua L Reid (registered member of the Snohomish Indian Nation) is an associate professor of American Indian Studies and the John Calhoun Smith Memorial Endowed Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. He holds degrees from Yale University and the University of California, Davis, and is a three-time Ford Foundation Fellow. Reid has also received awards, grants, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Western History Association, and the University of Washington, among others. His publications include the award-winning The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (Yale 2015) and Violence and Indigenous Communities: Confronting the Past and Engaging the Present (Northwestern, 2021), which he co-edited with Jeff Ostler and Susan Sleeper-Smith. He currently directs the UW’s Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, edits two book series, and serves on the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review and the Board of Directors for the National Council for History Education. Reid currently researches Indigenous explorers in the Pacific, from the late eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century.
Melvinjohn Ashue was born and raised in Forks, WA, and is an enrolled member of the Hoh Indian Tribe. He obtained his A.A. and B.S. in Business and Administration from Haskell Indian Nations University as well as his master’s in public administration from Evergreen State College. Currently, he is enrolled in a Masters of Indigenous Legal Studies at the University of Oklahoma and is working part-time at Peninsula College as an Instructional Consultant.
This event is a collaboration with ʔaʔk̓ʷustəƞáwt̓xʷ House of Learning, Peninsula College Longhouse, and is made possible by the generous support of the Peninsula College Foundation.
Attendees are encouraged to join in person or via Zoom at pencol-edu.zoom.us/j/89255252663 (Meeting ID: 892 5525 2663).
For further information, please contact Kate Reavey at kreavey@pencol.edu or call 360-417-6268.