Join us for the first
Camas Festival
Friday, May 6, 2022
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The Oak Grove on Linfield University's McMinnville Campus
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The Oak Grove on Linfield University's McMinnville Campus
May 6, 2022
Celebrating Camas
The Camas Festival, celebrating the use of camas lilies in the traditional foodways of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, will be held Friday, May 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Gather in the Oak Grove on Linfield University's McMinnville Campus, visit informational booths and tour the camas growth in the Cozine Creek area.
This event is free and open to the public. Thank you to our community partners, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and Greater Yamhill Watershed Council (GYWC), for collaborating on what we hope is the first of many festivals.
In the News
A flourishing relationship
The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde helped Linfield University rename a two-block street, now known as Lakamas Lane, on the McMinnville campus in honor of the word camas. Lakamas is the word for camas in the Chinuk Wawa language. This renaming effort led to plans for a larger celebration of camas that grows on campus.
Linfield environmental studies students and GYWC
Restoring Cozine Creek
In 2016, members of the GYWC began working with Linfield students to rid the Cozine Creek area of invasive species. In 2018, the project received a grant from the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Small Grant to fund weed control and planting. In the past two years, clearing has continued and the project is in a maintenance phase that will extend until 2024.
By Gerardo Ochoa
Growing community through camas
Connecting learning, life and community. This is the Linfield mission so many of us have come to love and aspire to as we carry out our work. As Linfield continues to evolve, we must also reflect upon what is meant by “community.” Sometimes in order to move forward, we have to look back. This includes coming to terms with the fact that Linfield sits on the territory of Indigenous people who lived here long before Oregon, or the university, existed.
Linfield University
Land Acknowledgement
Linfield University is located in the traditional territory of the Yamel (“Yam Hill”) band of the Kalapuya. After the 1855 Kalapuya Treaty (Treaty of Dayton), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed and are now members of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde.