Jim PepperFest 2018: Making the Invisible Visible

The 6th Annual Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival

September 29th – 30th, 2018 – Portland, Oregon

Our Creation Story

“I see young people following his music.”
– Floy C. Pepper

Oregon Art Beat remembers Jim Pepper.

First broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting in May, 2007.

The Flying Eagle Soars

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  • Regional Arts & Culture Council
  • KWSO
  • 1000 Nations
  • C.M. Bishop Jr. Family Fund
  • East Portland Action Plan
  • East Portland Neighborhood Office
  • Speak/Sing Native™ 3
  • Historic Parkrose District
  • MRG Foundation
  • Olson Family Fund
  • Parkrose School District
  • Speak/Sing Native™ 2
  • Spirit Mountain Community FUnd
  • Suzanne Lang Younge Family Fund
  • The Collins Foundation
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  • Speak/Sing Native™
  • UWMNAF Logo
The Jim Pepper Native Arts Council

Proudly Presents

Speak/Sing Native™

Speak/Sing Native™ is a new, multidisciplinary, collaborative approach to culturally-relevant Native American music education combining performing arts, multimedia technology and indigenous language preservation concepts and skill sets that is grounded in the specific tribal cultures and languages of the students enrolled in each particular class.

Speak/Sing Native™ is being developed in conformity with Senate Bill 13 (2017), with several pilot cohorts rolling out in September 2018.

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Remembering Jim Pepper

June 18, 1941 – February 10, 1992