Landscape Architecture professor Jolie Kaytes will talk about the complicated relationship between native and invasive vegetation, and how those relationships play into larger issues of naturalization, border crossing, and climate resilience.  While native and invasive species are often categorized as “good” or “bad,” Kaytes will explore the ways in which seeing plants as kin (as […]

Join the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute (PCEI) on a special Common Reading service project to improve a section of Pine Creek. See some of the Palouse and experience the ideas of Braiding Sweetgrass first-hand by helping to restore native plant life, water quality, and fish habitat! Transportation and snacks provided. Please bring a water bottle and […]

“According to Coyote” is an immersive hour of creative storytelling that teaches lessons from the deep familial roots of its creators with connections to community, family, and the realization that all of us are still learning from our mistakes, just like Coyote. Written by John Kaufman and performed by Nez Perce actor Kellen Trenal, this […]

At the start of Native American Heritage Month, Zoe Higheagle Strong, WSU vice provost for Native American Relations and Programs and tribal liaison to the WSU President, will present an overview of the history of the Morrill Act and the Enabling Act that contributed to the establishment of land-grant institutions. She will explore why universities […]

This documentary film is a portrait of the Nez Perce Tribe’s ancient agreement with salmon and follows their efforts to uphold this relationship as dams and climate impacts threaten the extinction of the species and cornerstone of culture. It explores the unique relationship between the Nimiipuu, salmon, and the landscape from which both evolved, showing […]

In honor of Veteran's Day, the Common Reading Program is screening the 2023 documentary Buffalo Soldiers, a film directed by Dru Holley that examines the profound and often contradictory roes played by Buffalo Solers in U.S. history. These African American men fought on two sets of front lines: military conflicts abroad and civil rights struggles […]

A macrame keychain-making activity, led by First-Year Programs Director Karen Weathermon, repeats a similar session held Jan. 16 on National Day of Racial Healing on the WSU Pullman campus. That event celebrated Braiding Sweetgrass, the year's common reading book, as well as the "strands that weave together to make people unique."  No registration required--just join […]

The WSU Common Reading Program will host a talk on efforts to restore the Palouse Prairie on Tues., Feb. 6, at 4:30 pm in CUE 203 on the WSU Pullman campus. Palouse Prairie Project Manager Shannon Collins and Executive Director Chris Duke will present on the work of the Phoenix Conservancy to restore habitat on […]

The Common Reading Program is screening this 2022 documentary in honor of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIW) National Day of Action and Awareness (February 14). Although Indigenous women make up less than 1 percent of the population of the United States, they are murdered at a rate more than 10 times the […]

Guest curator Michael Holloman and visiting artist Jacy Sohappy will speak about Indigenous beading and weaving practices as they relate to artworks and cultural materials featured in the exhibition Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections at WSU's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Holloman will emphasize the importance of intergenerational knowledge and the artworks […]