'Being Cowlitz-How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained Its Identity'

Host Ashley Thirstrup interviews Christine Dupres about her new book, Being Cowlitz - How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained Its Identity.  It covers the history of her tribe's struggle for federal recognition and her own personal story of understanding and coming to embrace her Native identity.

Later in the show, she will speak with Wambui Machua, a local woman organizing an African Dance and Dinner fundraiser to raise money for educational materials for her hometown in Kenya.