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Main menu Skip to content Home About About Wisdom of the Elders Be Part of Our Story – Be a Friend of Wisdom Contact Us Discovering Yidong Xinag Native Peer Mentorship Wisdom Environmental Justice Film and Radio Programs Climate and Native Wisdom: The People of the Caribou Request Broadcast Quality Audio Series One Series Two Series Three Series Four Series Four Update Series Four Programs now available Listen to Wisdom of the Elders Radio Listen to Series One: Wisdom of the Elders Radio Listen to Series Two: Wisdom of the Elders Radio Listen to Series Three: Wisdom of the Elders Radio Radio Production Team Discovering Our Story TV Introduction DOStv Episodes Archive DOStv LIVE Schedule Discovering Our Story Northwest Indian Storytellers Association (NISA) NISA Membership Form Turtle Island Storytellers Network Wisdom Workforce Development Wisdom Workforce Development, LLC Wisdom Workforce Development Internship Program Wisdom Gardens Shop Wisdom Gardens Guidelines & Application More about Wisdom Gardens e-Newsletters Sub menu Native Wisdom Documentary Film Series Premieres New Docs at the Northwest Film Center Wisdom of the Elders,...the screening will take place at the Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, on May 18th at 2pm ... Click Here to Read more → OUR END OF YEAR FUNDRAISING DRIVE Wisdom is in the middle of our end of year fundraising time and asking again this year for the assistance of our supporters. In addition to our Indiegogo fundraising campaign which is launching this week, it is also the time for our annual end of year fundraising campaign. Click Here to Read more → Wisdom accepting #GivingTuesday and end of year donations via PayPal: When you become a Friend of Wisdom of the Elders by making automatic monthly donations through PayPal, you will receive an invitation to dinner in January with co-founder Rose High… Click Here to Read more → Film Festival Announcements The Native Wisdom Documentary Film Series Premieres New Docs at the Northwest Film Center Wisdom of the Elders, a Native-run, Oregon non-profit, in partnership with the Northwest Film Center, will premiere two new one-hour programs in its Native Wisdom Documentary Film Series about today’s changing climate and how it is affecting Native Oregonians’ traditional foods and resources. The screening will take place at the Whitsell Auditorium at the Portland Art Museum, 1219 SSW Park Ave., Portland, Oregon, on May 18th at 2pm (program goes till 6pm). The documentaries feature gifted tribal elders and indigenous scientists and their observations of ecosystems on their reservation and ceded lands where they hunt, fish and gather traditional First Foods and medicines. The films show how traditional ecological knowledge is now influencing decisions by natural resource managers in Oregon on wildlife and resource management, and how Oregon Tribes are leading the way for the nation in habitat and species restoration. Portland-based Wisdom of the Elders, founded by the late Martin High Bear (Lakota) and his wife Rose High Bear (Athabascan), has been collecting Native oral histories, stories on history, culture and music for 25 years. Known for their award-winning radio series, “Wisdom of the Elders Radio,” and The Northwest Indian Storytellers Festival, Wisdom has started to develop documentary films. The video series “Native Wisdom,” includes programs on Alaskan Athabascan and Inupiat Tribes. The new pair of films, entitled “The Peoples of Western Oregon” and “The Peoples of Eastern Oregon,” will screen once only at 2:30pm and 4pm with a short break in between. “Native American prophesy states that the day will come,” explains Executive Producer Rose High Bear, “When the people of the world will turn to Native Americans and other indigenous people to learn how to care for the earth and for one another.” The films were produced by Wisdom staff producers, Kunu Bearchum, Tim Keenan Burgess and Lawrence Johnson. Klamath Councilman Perry Chocktoot had this to say: “I had one old elder tell me one time, ‘There’s nothing without meaning.’ … And what he was trying to tell me was, if you do something, there’s going to be a reaction to it. No matter what you do. Whether it’s the pushing of wind, or the disturbance of dirt, there’s always a reaction to it. So, it made me think: how are we doing things? How are we interacting with government agencies? How are we interacting with one another? Is it going to meet our needs over time? Is it going to meet the unborn children’s needs?“ Funding for the project been provided by the National Endowment of the Arts, The Coquille Tribal Community Fund, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Oregon Cultural Trust, James F and Marion L Miller Foundation, Running Strong for American Indian Youth, Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, Prosper Oregon, Portland Film Office, and the Spirit Mountain Community Fund. Wisdom Film Doc Invitation Film Screening 2019 Press release Download & Share Wisdom Documentary Poster Funding for the project been provided by The National Endowment of the Arts , The Coquille Tribal Community Fund , Native Arts and Cultures Foundation , Oregon Cultural Trust , James F and Marion L Miller Foundation , Running Strong for American Indian Youth , Oregon Community Foundation , Oregon Arts Commission , Prosper Oregon , Portland Film Office , and The Spirit Mountain Community Fund. << Subscribe >> Check out our website and subscribe to our newsletter at www.wisdomoftheelders.org Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook , Instagram , and Twitter , and help us spread the word with #WOTE! Announcements eNewsletter from Wisdom of the Elders February 21st, 2019 NOTE FROM WISDOM’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Greetings to all, I hope everyone is well and looking forward to a beautiful spring. Once again, we at Wisdom of the Elders would like to thank everyone who attended and/or supported Wisdom’s 25-year celebration in November 2018. We appreciate you walking through the years with us. We are grateful for the opportunity to continue growing and improving our projects and programing into the next 25 years! We would like to welcome Trish Haugen to our Wisdom staff. Trish will be the Coordinator for Wisdom Workforce Development. Trish is also our Discovering Yidong Xinag (DYX) Youth Leadership Program co-coordinator, along with Kunu Bearchum, who is our Multimedia Assistant. Together Trish and Kunu will work with Indigenous communities and schools to expand Wisdom’s multimedia projects and environmental science curriculum for our Native communities in Oregon and Washington. In addition, we would like to thank Lora Price for her many years of dedication and leadership in helping to build lasting partnerships for Wisdom Workforce Development, LLC with the many restoration and conservation organizations and individuals throughout the greater Portland Metro Area. As Lora plans for her long-awaited retirement, we wish her success, joy and much peace in her new journeys. Your presence and influence will surely be missed! Alas, we remain hopeful to meet you around the bend sometime, somewhere! We send out a big thank you to our partners, Portland Parks and Recreation, Johnson Creek Watershed Council, Columbia Slough Watershed Council, Bureau of Environmental Services, Rose CDC, Friends of Trees, Metro, West Multnomah Water and Soil Conservation District and Columbia Land Trust, to name a few, for the opportunities for our Wisdom Workforce Development crew to work alongside you in many important projects throughout the city and surrounding areas. I personally would like to thank Wisdom’s WWD LLC ace team, Alvey Seeyouma, Autumn Highdesertwolf, Bruce Amick II, and Dave Eyster for their hard work and dedication regardless of rain and cold or sun and heat, to accomplish the missions. Well done! Next, we would like to welcome back Marissa Sprang, who is our Coordinator for Wisd...