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Article: UO builds community with new longhouse.(Higher Education)(The construction project brings together the hands of many tribes and traditions)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 23, 2003
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Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard
It will be a house without hunger, a place where spirit, mind and body all will be nourished.
And it will be a place of tradition. When the Many Nations Longhouse opens on the University of Oregon campus more than a year from now, it will be framed in cedar harvested from tribal land, its bark stripped by hand and woven into plates to be used in the opening ceremony.
The plates carry a special meaning in American Indian cultures. They are made by hand by weaving strips cut from the inner layer of bark, and they are a sign that no one who comes to the longhouse will go unfed.
"In our tradition, when ...