OCTOBER 31, 2022 • DAILYBAROMETER.COM • VOL. CXXVIII NO. 2
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Project funded by the Department of the Interior will start implemendting traditional ecological knowledge. 3
The Military Veteran Resource Center, the Student Veteran Association and others share their resources for student veterans. 6
Forest Restoration
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Worker shortage affects compound with existing hardships for Corvallis housing programs By SAM MISA City Editor By GINNIE SANDOVAL News Contributor November is Native American Heritage Month and Oregon State University is celebrating by hosting a number of events and encouraging students and the public to learn about how they can recognize past and present impacts within Native American and Indigenous communities. According to the OSU website, it’s important to recognize what a Land Grant is and what it means to be a Land Grant University and how a Land Acknowledgement shouldn’t just be about words. In Oregon, because of the acreage given to under a Land Grand, OSU was built upon the traditional homelands of the Marys River or Ampinefu Band of Kalapuya whose people were forcibly removed because of a Land Grant and sent to live on reservations
in Western Oregon. The “Morrill Land Grant College Act of 1862” was a Land Grant bill signed by President Abraham L i n c o l n granting
federal lands to sell and fund the building of colleges. These colleges were known as Land Grant Universities. According to a 2018 article by iMPACT Magazine,, Oregon State University originally began as Oregon Agricultural College and was established as a Land Grant University in 1868 when Oregon was given 90,000 acres to sell in order to fund the building of Universities. Part of OSU’s Land Acknowledgement states that this land was taken from the Klamath, Coos, Lower Umpqua, Siuslaw, and Coquille people to fund the building of Oregon State University. “It’s a lot to grapple with because there’s that part of it [taking land from tribes] and there’s the other part of the history of land grants to provide public education to the people of the state,” said Luhui Whitebear, NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
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While the causes may be different, the problem remains the same for many industries across the U.S. — workers are needed but can’t be found. In Corvallis, the worker shortage has already caused the Corvallis Transit System to completely shut down weekend service and cut a few routes from the schedule in mid-September. For housing programs, such as Community Services Consortium, Unity Shelter and Jackson Street Youth Services, the problems aren’t as prevalent but no less important. These include the worker shortages as well as a variety of other problems unique to housing programs. According to Housing Services Manager at Community Services Consortium Dina Eldridge, CSC has already hired more staff in the past few months, but recruiting is still difficult for them. CORVALLIS WINTER HOUSING Continued on page 18