A conversation with writer Mitchell S. Jackson, author of "Survival Math" and "The Residue Years," on American dreams, home, Portland, self-determination, family, and redemption with Adam Davis, executive director of Oregon Humanities.

Mitchell S. Jackson was born and raised Portland, Oregon. His work explores his hometown, including the systemic forces that shaped his community, his family, and his early life. That exploration began with his debut novel, The Residue Years, and continued in his second book, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family. In his hybrid nonfiction, Jackson examines the hardships that shaped his life, his family, and his community. The book serves as a cultural critique of the racial history of Oregon, American whiteness, mass incarceration, sex work, violence, and broken families—phenomena of which Jackson is intimately familiar—and ultimately presents a microcosm of the forces blighting the lives of untold disenfranchised Americans.

Consider This With Mitchell S. Jackson

Writer Miriam Gershow's debut novel The Local News, published in 2009, was an Oregon Book Award Finalist. Her collection, Survival Tips: Stories was published in 2024. She teaches writing in the English Department at the University of Oregon.

Gershow discusses her writing and reads from Survival Tips.

UO Today interview: Miriam Gershow, author of Survival Tips: Stories

Leah Middlebrook, Comparative Literature and Spanish at the UO, is the in-coming director of the Oregon Humanities Center. She talks about her scholarship and what attracted her to the OHC. Paul Peppis, English at the UO, is the out-going director of the OHC, having served 11 years. He talks about his scholarship and how academia has changed during his 29-year career as a professor of English.

UO Today interview: Leah Middlebrook and Paul Peppis

An update on the Warm Springs Early Childhood Education Center with new staff members.

Reona Trimble discusses staff training, program recruitments and building modifications.

Paulette Henry talks about her role as the new Family Service Coordinator.

Tiana Northrup gives updates on the summer program and curriculum. 

Karla Bagley shares the priorities of her position with ECE as the Health Coordinator. 

The ECE Center was recently placed in the Health & Human Services Branch of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Caroline Cruz is the Branch's General Manager.

ECE Update - KWSO Warm Springs Program Podcast

Native Language students of the Warm Springs Ichishkiin, Kiksht Awawat and Numu participated in the 2024 Knowledge & Language Bowl at the Warm Springs K-8 Academy on May 23, 2024.

Knowledge And Language Bowl 2024 - KWSO Our People And Mother Earth Podcast

Staff from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Branch of Natural Resources talk about the overpopulation of wild horses on the Warm Springs Reservation. 

Camille Brooks is a wildlife biologist for the Range & Agriculture Department.

Michael Leecy is the Wildlife, Range & Agriculture Manager for the Tribes.

WSPG Podcast - CTWS Horse Managment

On this episode of Grounded, join host Bryan as he heads out to the Columbia River Gorge to attend the annual Cherry Pre-Harvest Tour and see an all-electric, autonomous tractor. The event attracts regional cherry and fruit growers, and this year’s demonstration was organized by partners including Oregon State University and Wy’East Resource, Conservation and Development; Forth Mobility; Sustainable Northwest; and Bonneville Environmental Foundation.

Grounded theme music by Oregon artist, Jana Cushman.

Episode 41: Oregon Cherries and Tractor Tech

KWSI was a commercial radio station owned and operated by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs that went on the air in 1986.  A program segment featured local Central Oregon History hosted by “the Old Timer.”  This Our People & Mother Earth features information about the History of the Warm Springs Tribes and the impact of the Treaty of 1855.  “The Old Timer” was produced by KWSI Station Manager Nat Shaw.

Consider This With Mitchell S. Jackson

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