Notable Women ​of Portland     
8 September, 2018          
​9:30 am - 11:00 am 
​Welcome back!  ​For our opening program of the season - come join First Saturday PDX  for a historical narrative of an often overlooked part of Portland’s history: women who contributed significantly to  the development of the region.

Based on their recent book, Notable Women of Portland (Images of America), historian Dr. Tracy Prince and her daughter, researcher  Zadie Schaffer, will share historical narratives of women who radically changed the Oregon frontier to what it is today.   These women's stories, often uncovered or ignored, inhabit more than 10,000 years of  Native American, pioneer, Progressive Era, World War I, World War II, and post-war history, as well as arts and politics.    ​The program will highlight contributions by Chinese American women.
About the speaker:  Tracy J. Prince, Ph.D. is an Affiliated Research Professor at Portland State University's American Indian Teacher Program (in the department of Curriculum and Instruction). She is the author of Portland's Goose Hollow (2011), Culture Wars in British Literature: Multiculturalism and National Identity (2012) and co-author of Notable Women of Portland (2017) and Portland’s Slabtown (2013). In her research on the early days of Portland history, she has uncovered much long-forgotten Native American and Chinese American history, including a Native American village in NW Portland's Johnson Creek Gulch, the pervasive use of Chinook Jargon between pioneers and their Native American neighbors, and much more extensive Chinese vegetable gardens than previously known. 
For further information on Ms. Prince, see here:  http://pdx.academia.edu/TracyJPrince
     Images from our presentation:
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​Our educational program series has been developed in collaboration with PSU’s Institute for Asian Studies, and is free and open to the public.​  First Saturday PDX  current full season schedule and descriptions available HERE.  

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Portland State University, Academic & Student Recreation Ctr (ASRC),  Room 230
1800 SW 6th Ave, Portland OR 97201
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