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Author Beth Piatote

HOOD RIVER — The Hood River County Library Reads program presents “The Land, The People: Columbia River Tribes’ Cultural Connection to Place” on March 29 at 11 a.m. at the FISH Food Bank. The program is part of a series of activities based on the Hood River County Reads 2025 book selection, “The Beadworkers: Stories” by Beth Piatote, a Nez Perce enrolled in the Colville Confederated Tribes.

The program includes guest speakers Leon Ganuelas, manager of the Yakama Wildlife Resource Management Department and Russell Spino, chief of Police of CRITFC and member of Warm Springs Confederated Tribes.