Studium Generale will open its Fall Quarter series with the traditional Welcome Celebration, a partnership among the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, and Peninsula College.
Loni Greninger, Vice Chairwoman of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Council, as well as the Culture Department Director, will teach us about how language informs the S’Klallam People’s value of relationship to brothers and sisters of creation (land, seas, animals, plants, humans).
Loni is a language teacher, song and dance leader, and values creating partnerships with the greater community. Her primary job as Vice-Chairwoman includes working with local to national policy leaders.
Peninsula College recognizes and honors these traditional nəxʷsƛ̕áy̕əm’ lands. The first longhouse built on a community college campus, ʔaʔk̓ʷustəƞáwt̓xʷ was named in the nəxʷsƛ̕áy̕əm’ language and is a gathering place to teach, learn, and share cultural traditions, knowledge, and identity. ʔaʔk̓ʷustəƞáwt̓xʷ is a place to acknowledge and respect our unique differences and diversity. This annual Welcome event was founded by Lola Moses of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe in 2016, and in the past has featured language, culture, arts, and education.
Please join us each Thursday at 12:35 pm in the Little Theater on the Port Angeles campus of Peninsula College, or via livestream on Zoom (Meeting ID: 881 8437 0617). Studium Generale is made possible through generous contributions to the Peninsula College Foundation. For more information, please contact Kate Reavey at kreavey@pencol.edu or (360) 417-6268.