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Join us on Thursday, May 12th, 7-9pm, for this free lecture event at U of O at White Stag (70 NW Couch St., Portland), presented by Gregory Nokes & Tom Banse, who will enlighten us on less-known history of early Chinese immigrants in eastern Oregon through their most recent research and coverage.  This event was made possible by the support from U of O at White Stag.

Gregory Nokes was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press and The Oregonian.  He is the author of Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon, published in October of 2009 by Oregon State University Press.  The book is the first authoritative account of the massacre of as many as three-dozen Chinese gold miners in Oregon’s Hells Canyon in 1887, a crime that was never fully investigated and later covered up for more than a century.  Mr. Nokes will also share his experience with the annual “Chinese Remembering” that’s taking place on the massacre site since 2008.

Regional Correspondent Tom Banse covers public policy, environment, business and breaking news from the public radio Northwest News Network bureau in Washington’s state capital, Olympia. His stories can be heard during Morning Edition and All Things Considered on OPB Radio, KUOW-Seattle, and on other National Public Radio stations in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.  In summer 2010, Banse produced an in-depth investigative report on a star-crossed effort to exhume and repatriate the remains of 556 pioneer Chinese immigrants from Oregon to China.