Here is the latest update on the progress toward the Many Nations Longhouse:

July, 2009

We would like to share with you the progress the University of Oregon has made with the support and retention of Native American students and to share with you the successes of our UO Native American Initiative. Initiated by former UO president Myles Brand and further refined and developed by current president Dave Frohnmayer, the initiative has resulted in:

· A coordinator position for Native American enrollment services. · A "residency by aboriginal right" program that offers in-state tuition to all members of the tribes and bands that have a historic relationship to the land that became Oregon.

· The launch of the Northwest Indigenous Language Institute, through the UO linguistics department in partnership with Northwest tribes.

· The Southwest Oregon Research Project: UO anthropology department researchers and the Coquille have retrieved historical documents relevant to Northwest tribes, then potlatched to gift these documents to the tribes.