The Pacific County History Forum meets at the Oysterville Schoolhouse on the first Wednesday of each month.

OYSTERVILLE — Guest speakers at next week’s History Forum, Mildred Robinson and her husband, Chinook Tribal Vice Chairman Sam Robinson, will discuss “Chinook Indian Nation Vitality Today” — a follow-up to September’s forum that featured Chinook creation stories and tribal beginnings.

In the discussion that will follow, forum participants will be encouraged to answer the questions the History Forum regularly poses: “Where did we come from? When did we arrive? Where did we settle and why?”

According to David Olson, one of the forum organizers: “What we often forget is that those of us who arrived more recently make our own contribution to the community in our own particular way. These more recent contributions will collectively form what our own descendants will be looking at as ‘history.’ The more we document and discuss, the more we learn about the distant past, as well as how and why things have changed.”

The upcoming forum will be held Wednesday, Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. until noon at the Oysterville Schoolhouse. The public is invited to these free events, which take place the first Wednesday of each month, September through May. All are encouraged to bring their stories, their questions, and their enthusiasm!