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NORTHWEST BOOK TOUR: SOLDIER TO ADVOCATE: C.E.S. WOOD’S 1877 LEGACY

The following list–in reverse chronological order–records public lectures, radio interviews, and television broadcasts featuring George Venn’s work between 11/2006 and 5/2008.


Linn County Historical Society, Albany, Oregon, 5/18/2008

“C.E.S. Wood.” Laurence Cotton and John Degraaf. KCTS, Seattle, Washington, 30 minutes, 5/27/08

Pacific Northwest American Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Walla Walla, Washington, 4/11/08

“C.E.S. Wood.” Laurence Cotton and John Degraaf. Oregon Public Broadcasting (“Oregon Experience.”) 30 minutes, 2/11/08

Columbia Forum, Astoria, Oregon, 11/12/07

Coaster Theater, Cannon Beach, Oregon, 11/11/07

Tamastslikt Cultural Heritage Museum, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon, 11/3/07

High Desert Museum, Sagebrush Soldiers Event, Bend, Oregon; two presentations with Stephan Zacharias, Living History Program Actor, as Lt. C.E.S. Wood, 6/9/07

Lewis and Clark State College, Native American Awareness Week, Lewiston, Idaho, 3/15/07

Deschutes Public Library, Deschutes Historical Society, Bend, Oregon, 1/14/07

Van Meter, Mike. “Mike Van Meter Interviews Author George Venn.” KLCC Radio: Northwest Passage, 12 January 2007, at 4:00 and 4:30 pm.

The Book Barn, Bend, Oregon, 1/12/07

Central Oregon Community College Library, Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program, Bend, Oregon, 1/11/07

“The Talking Earth.” George Venn’s Soldier to Advocate Interview by Walt Curtis. KBOO Community Radio, Portland, Oregon, 12/11/06.

Eastern Oregon University, Reading Room, Pierce Library, La Grande, Oregon, 12/4/06

Multnomah County Library, Hollywood Branch, Portland, Oregon, 11/11/06

Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, Native American Center, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 11/10/06



Selected Works

Anthologies
THE OREGON LITERATURE SERIES (1989-1994)
Stewart Holbrook Award, Oregon Institute of Literary Arts, 1995 for "Outstanding contributions to Oregon's literary life."
Literary History/Nonfiction
SOLDIER TO ADVOCATE: C. E. S. WOOD’S 1877 LEGACY (2006)
A SOLDIER’S UNPUBLISHED DIARY, DRAWINGS, POETRY, AND LETTERS OF ALASKA AND THE NEZ PERCE CONFLICT
Multi-genre anthology
MARKING THE MAGIC CIRCLE (1987)
AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY: POETRY, FICTION, AND ESSAYS
1988 Oregon Book Award
Best 100 Oregon Books 1800-2000
Poetry
WEST OF PARADISE (1999)
"A true and compelling voice...."
--Eugene Register Guard
"One of the best poets in the Northwest"
--East Oregonian
Finalist, Oregon Book Award in Poetry, 2000
OFF THE MAIN ROAD (1978)
Poems by George Venn and drawings by Don Gray
SUNDAY AFTERNOON: GRANDE RONDE (1975)
With drawings by Ian Gatley



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