Ethnocide, a word first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term "genocide"), describes the systemic erasure of a people’s ancestral culture. Just as the concept of genocide radically reshaped our perception of human rights in the twentieth century, reframing discussions about race and culture in terms of ethnocide can… Read More »Resisting Cultural Erasure in America

Join the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland for their second Gubernatorial Candidate Forum for an opportunity to hear from former Oregon Senator Betsy Johnson. Betsy is running for governor as an independent leader unaffiliated with any political party. After her presentation, she will take questions from the attendees. The… Read More »Jewish Community Relations Council Gubernatorial Candidate Forum

Since the early 1800s, Native peoples in the place that became Oregon have used a variety of tools to resist genocide and cultural erasure. The US government and the dominant culture have employed practices including land theft, violence, boarding schools, political and economic discrimination, and termination policy in repeated attempts to destroy tribes and their… Read More »Tools of Survival: Tribal Education, Relationships, and Sovereignty in Oregon