Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society: November 2020

Happy Thanksgiving

It's been a difficult year but we have a lot to be thankful for.

Your continued support is greatly appreciated.

Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society

Native American Heritage Month honors our Native American Military Personnel at Fold3

Fold 3 honors our Native American soldiers on their blog , this month of Native American Heritage Month and also honoring Veterans Day.

Native American Contributions to the U.S. Military

Missing POW, KIA or MIA military family members? This site may help you.

Do you have missing family members from past conflicts? The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Office may be of help to you. The mission of the site, a office of accountability for military families is to

provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation.

The site provides the latest information on missing military personnel from WW II to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. The agency provides this service with integrity, compassion, and respect for our nations missing and unidentified service members to their families.

The site provides lists of missing soldiers listed by state and conflict. There are 72,000 missing personnel from WWII alone that have not been accounted for. Just in Oregon alone there is 884 unaccounted for.

Please visit the site and view the work being done to bring them home.

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

Gold States

Veterans Day November 11, 2020

Veterans Day is a annual public celebration on November 11, that honors military veterans, that is, persons who served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I; major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. The United States previously observed Armistice Day. The U.S. holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.

November is Americam Indian Heritage Month

This month OPB and PBS is featuring many programs for the

American Indian Heritage Month celebration.

Indigenous voices speak out in a month long about diversity and and long

history in the United States.

Celebrate history, culture and traditions of our American Indian.

PBS and OPB - Native American Heritage

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Photo: Standing Bear

Columbia River Indian Center

"Standing Bear was a Ponca chief and Indigenous civil rights leader who successfully argued in U.S. District Court in 1879 in Omaha that indigenous people are "persons within the meaning of the law" and have the right of habeas corpus, thus becoming the first Native American judicially granted civil rights under American law. His wife Susette Primeau (Primo), daughter of Lone Chief/Antoine Primeau, was also a signatory on the 1879 writ that initiated the famous court case" ~ Old Photos Facebook Community

2024 Program Schedule

January 6, 2024 - America's Extension Service - Resources for Genealogy - Georga Foster
February - Original Courthouse History Forums- Members are encouraged to attend.
March - Darrelll Jabin - Oregons Traveling Historian- March 23, 2024
June 10, 2024 - Hood River Museum Meetup - 1:00pm
July/August - Summer Break
September 14, 2024 - Solutions To Geneaogical Research In Todays Economy
October 5, 2024 - Thomas MacEntee LIVE
Nov. 9, 2024 - FamilySearch Workshop -LDS LIbrary
December- No Program- Merry Christmas

Pioneers of The West

Header Photo: Helen Lundeberg created this painting while employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal program that employed artists during the Great Depression. Like other WPA artists, Lundeberg depicted a hopeful view of the United States during a time of turmoil and uncertainty by showing a dreamlike image of western expansion. The group of pioneers, with their backs to the viewer, follows an ox-drawn wagon into a valley. The monumental figures appear strong and assured in their forward progress. Rising mountains melt into the sun. Lundeberg's style of mixing fantastic images with reality is evident in the background: The pink, rolling mountains blend into the orange, pink, and bluish haze of the sky; it is difficult to determine where the mountains end and the sky begins. The careful use of space and dreamlike elements in Pioneers of the West is representative of Lundeberg's postsurrealist style. This movement, derived from surrealism, purposely combined fantasy with reality and was predominantly found on the West Coast. (Helen Lundeberg, Pioneers of the West, 1934, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration, 1985.8.27) GSA: Information and images created or owned by the GSA unless otherwise indicated, are considered in the public domain. They may be distributed or copied as permitted by applicable law.