The Logger's Daughter | Oregon Experience
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2023
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"The Logger's Daughter" follows an African-American woman born and raised in Eastern Oregon as she unravels the mystery of her family's past.
In 1923, dozens of Black loggers and their families left the Southern United States and moved to an isolated community in rural Eastern Oregon. Decades later, Gwen Trice was determined to understand and preserve the history of her family and the town of Maxville.
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Gwen is so right: history is important.
Thank you for sharing her discoveries.
Learning about history is to learn about what holds us together. Also about what separates us into antagonistic groups, depending on who is running the economy and what their interests are. Racial discrimination allowed for a minority to become wealthy, using the lie that blacks were inferior and would not survive without the help or the superior whites. Hopefully, more people will come out of ignorance sooner than later.
I agree. We need a part 2. I just love this history. Thank you Gwen for your creation.
Yes, I totally agree, and I hope they had that reunion. I would love to see a video of that event! 👍
Took great courage to come to a state like Oregon was at that time.
Nicely done documentary.
My grandfather was a dentist who went up to the mountains in N.C. to treat the loggers. My brother still has the red velvet covered dentist's chair grandad took up there. When he died just before WWII a lot of his rich clients down in Greenville refused to pay their bill. One farmer took produce to my grandmother for 40years. Grandad treated his wife despite her having diphtheria.
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That's how the rich stay rich: by ripping off good honest folk.
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So the wealthy refused to pay their bills? No surprise there.
Thanks for this one, a great story by a beautiful storyteller.
Thank you for this video. Really interesting!!!
Thank you Gwen for doing this.....
Wonderful it’s refreshing to hear a good story instead of all the violence and hatred in the news now days. This made me cry. I only wish a sense of community would come back to this country like it used to be in areas no one expected it to be
Thank You for sharing and posting a feel good story.
This story evoked very deep emotional joy within my heart that actually drew tears.
This should be shown in all schools as an example of what was and is in most communities.
Inner city experience are very different than suburban and rural experience even to this day... and I'm glad this movie was made to show that.
Gave me goosebumps a couple times. Of pride. I love Oregon so deeply. We've heard of the racist past and it's painful to consider. This is of the Oregon I know. It was healing to learn the racism wasn't everywhere. I've never understood judging a human on skin tone rather than the, "content of their character", as one eloquent and revered man once phrased it. Perhaps my logical mind has trouble with the non-logic of racism.
OPB should do an update on this story... I believe this property was bought to restore/preserve the history and Gwen opened up a museum.
Do an update? I see this video was recently posted, but how old is this recording?
@@JesusDisciple916 Not sure, but it looks maybe 10 yrs old originally
Wonderful!
For updates search the web -- outside of UA-cam -- for "Maxville heritage"
Wonderful!
Excellent documentary!
Why not teach more of these stories in school? Black Americans were a big part of the West. Black Bart, and the doctor in Laura Ingalls Wilder's stories are two that come to mind.
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They are too busy dividing us now a days than uniting us
You know why. Hopefully 100 years from now different stories will be told of everyone’s achievements to society.
Republicans and conservatives are doing everyting possible, even passing legislation to make sure that black history history in America is erased from the American education system.
A lot of info is familial/regional/state wide. Also, a lot of Black info/records/history were not recorded. Luckily, more Black people are sharing their history and digitally recording it.
When I was in the 4th grade in the 1960's I met my new and old friend Mr. Johnson. At the time he was 103 years old. He was in excellent physical condition. He was very tall, dark, thin and quiet spoken. His mind was like a walking Encyclopedia. He told me about his life in Africa, how he was stolen and became a slave in America to becoming a free man. He had no family living at the time, but he told me of his mom, dad and sister and brother that he never saw again.
As a little girl, his life history was mine boggling to me - so I became a 9 year old writer.
I would hurry home from School everyday so I could sit on his porch while he weaved his beautiful baskets, a trade he learned as a slave, listening and writing his life history.
When I was in the 6th grade my teacher let me borrow a tape recorder so I could document his story with him telling me his story in his own voice while answering my questions.
I still have my journals of Mr. Johnson along with the old tapes. I've kept them safe and private for many decades.
I find myself reading them and with my mind I can see and hear Mr. Johnson's kind voice while he sat on his porch in a rocking chair that he had made weaving his baskets.
RIP Mr. Johnson -✝️💕
It's time to write that book now🙂
That was GREAT!
This was wonderful. Absolutely loved it! ❤
Wonderful story...I thoroughly enjoyed it.
What a great episode. Absolutely loved it. Thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Very interesting! What a hard life they had. The elderly lady at the end had such a cute smile.
It’s sad to hear some of the references and names used towards the black population. All the more reason this kind of history needs to be taught. 😁
I totally agree!!! Boy vs men . . . nigger Bob. Quite degrading!
The Bible says that God's people would be called by words and would be hated by ALL NATIONS!!!
Which words were bad?
Not trying to be funny nor sarcastic but I found it to be accurate for the timeline.
Those words they are using gives a detailed reference to their homeland.
@@lordvonmanor6915 do you know the history of Oregon?
@@jimhere1 Yes I know the history of the entire West Coast.
Slaves "Working Class" was in the South and European Serfs were held in the West.
The West Coast was ran by Mestizen und Mulatten.
Oregon is where Kanaka lived 👍.
This was very well produced. Enjoyed every moment. Thank you ❤️
This was an absolutely beautiful human story. Thank you
Just a lovely documentary !
I'm an Oregonian and from loggers and rail people. Worked the woods and trains myself.
This has been tremendous history and filming and interviewing. Ms. Trice is well spoken, warmly professional, and a heck of a looker. Thanks ma'm
I love history. I especially love learning about people, places and events that I have never heard of before. Kudos to Gwen for not only wanting to preserve her family history, but doing so for many others as well. You never know Gods plans when you set out on a journey. He always makes things better than you could have imagined. Blessings to Gwen and the people of Promise. Those still alive and those long gone on to their rewards.❤❤🇺🇸
Great video, thank you. My daddy was a logger in Oregon during the 50-60s. I have his logging hat.😃
I enjoyed this. Just imagine how many stories of history I've never heard, thank you for sharing.🌺
Oregon was "nice for work, but it was no place for pleasure." I got a real cick out of this statement and I think I kind of agree with him!🤣
What a story...thanks for recording the people before they're gone!
12:12 kudos to her for not slapping the hell out of that lady for saying what she said
This is a great story. Thanks for posting it.
I must've coughed..a bit🤣, I'm black so I pressed pause and thought a little 🤣🤣
It was definitely a moment when I felt my blood pressure rise. And then when Gwen followed it up by saying she was proud of it, I was about to lose it until she quickly continued that she was referring to the fact that they didn't sugar coat things with her. But for a moment I was like "Sis..."🤣
I was appalled by the fact that the woman said that it was “a name that came with him” and seems to have no awareness that a moniker like that is so disgusting and hurtful. What I love is the juxtaposition of the woman starting at 11:38 “those people were from the south, ya know, and they were prejudiced.”
She’s just repeating the factual story, so that people can know the actual story. You prefer she lie? You want to slap an old lady for telling the truth, what’s wrong with you. She didn’t call him that, she’s saying he arrived with that name.
Excellent! Thank you.
Gwen is beautiful! Thanks for the story!
I love this story
Our history as African Americans in this country is important. Thank you for sharing your family's experience with us Gwen.
Lovely story. So important to collect these stories.
That was beautiful - thank you!
What a wonderful story
That was so fabulous. I'm so grateful to learn about this.
Loved these story.
This is an amazing piece of history and very well edited, produced, and narrated. Thank you 🙏
We really enjoyed this history. Love all those who lived there ❤
Amazing people remembering so far back 👏👏👏👏
Excellent documentary! ❤
wow ; as being oregon girl raised and lived as well; i didnt know any of this..... " i moved to seattle after high school " ; i like washington. ; but oregon is home :)
Because public schools don't teach...they INDOCTRINATE. We haven been getting the truth for a very only time.
Wonderful! And that dear teacher's comment and face " yeah, " the sooner the better" was beautiful!
Very interesting. Thank you!
Love this ❤
This was a very interesting and informative documentary!
I truly enjoyed this episode
Great video. Wonderful story!
Deep River is a 2019 novel written by Karl Marlantes addressing logging west of the Cascade Mountains during the same period (early 20th Century) addressed in this expose'. Deep River examines the role of Organized-Labor in the lumber industry during that time.
Love this ! Please update❤
This is the most beautiful thing i've ever seen.. We are all the same.. Nothing will change that.. Nothing will stand on the way.
What a wonderful piece of history I wasn’t aware of. Thanks for posting this documentary.
I love this story. It was raw and truthful from the people that lived it.
Really interesting, it was so good to people getting along. They all worked together and lived together. Sounds like heaven!
What a great story. I love that area. My mother was born in Hot Lake, Oregon, not far from there, in 1930.
Grandpa Baker was Jack of all trades. Mostly mining and building.
I loved it.
What a good story😊 go strong beautiful lady 💪🙏
Black men's referred to as boy's white's as mens wow!
I also noticed it. Wow.
Excellent.Thank you Sir for your service and Excellence
Love this story. I was born in Oregon and my Dad was a logger for a time.
Beautiful story and beautiful history,,,
I really enjoyed hearing this hidden gem of history.
Very interesting..history never learned
Thank you ❤❤ great story
Many came from Eastern Ky including my Mom’s uncles. One lost a son in a logging accident but this was when they finally settled in Michigan to cut trees. Another uncle lost a daughter in a hunting accident after settling down for good in Wisconsin
Mrs Riggles is a jewel 💎
What an interesting and entertaining presentation. Good ting in Oregon no one was having to figure out how to make good enough roads on the muskeg and permafrost. Like to northern Alberta, Canada after marrying into a European family background near a city like in Edmonton, Alberta Canada after working there from a very young age for a while making bricks too.
Thank you for sharing this story. The world is a different place now. It's beautiful to remember that we can all get along. Respect for our differences is what we need, not the opposite.
To a certain degree yes
You mean tolerenance...black men having to put up with disrespect isn't normal human behavior...
In the early 1950's, as a little kid, I lived in Bridgeport CT, USA. There was other kids from every part of the world in my neighborhood. We were so happy to be able to get outside and play with other kids our age without the grownups, some how we all got along! I think racism is learned from the older people , though. When I was ten, my family moved to Louisiana from the north. The first time I saw a public water fountain marked "colored" I ran up to it and was profoundly disappointed not to see rainbow water coming out! Mom had to take me aside and explain about it. I was amazed, sad and disgusted.
@17:03 “It was rugged.” 😂😂🙏🏽
when i’m out Oregon, it’s North West, all day !
Nicely done Bravo !!!
Great video
Logger was a big laughing joking hard working mighty job for a real man like Lucky. My family logged too, in Oregon. We were white-but I don’t remember that our part of Oregon felt this way about any color lines.
Great story
My father dropped out of school at 14 to help support his family.
Finally, the narrative coming from the Pacific Northwest has been lily white...the voices of others need to be heard. Ms. Gwen, thank you for sharing the story of your beautiful family. Lucky wasn't just lucky, he was blessed. 🌹
good story
I cringed at the terms used to describe black people. But although they came with their prejudices and ignorance they managed to exist in their separateness. I struggle…
FANTASTIC 🎉🎉
Nice to see this history it would just be a big field out in the woods forgotten must be something to stand there were lucky her dad once walked and lived...
As Morgan Freeman said this is our history and it is. What a wonderful journey she made to share.
How could you say to your little girl,"you cant play with her she is black" that breaks my heart,we are all one race and that is the human race,love one another
There were no Native left? They probably had been disposessed before or as the lumber companies came and the survivors may have left to Canada to escape that expansion on their land. 🍁
Gwen is gorgeous, shes looks exactly like her mother ❤
The Bible says that God's people would be called by words and would be hated by ALL NATIONS!!!
History is important. Here in Texas in a small southern town we had Two black families. They didn't know they were black cause we treated the same. Actually we loved them more.
God bless you more you are a child of God. We all are Sisters and Brothers and we’re supposed to love each other equally.
Would love to hear of others who went out Northwest from Arkansas. 🖤
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Time for an update ❤
Google : Maxville Heritage
Logging today is one of the most dangerous professions there is. I can only imagine how much worse it was back then.
I was 10 when we moved to the Salem area from the midwest. Dad had been stationed at a recruitment center in Salem after spending WWII in the Pacific. They fell in love with the weather and just about everything else. Swore they'd be back. As of July 4th, 1967, they were.
No place on earth I'd rather be.
it is in the "small" his- and herstories,
that the greater truths are found.
the grand ones just sate the egos of small men.
They aren't even mentioning the Indian people who had recently been thrown off the lands for the convenience of logging barons.
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The N word part for that guy ok smh..not sure if i heard that right omg.
History though has dark and hateful moments it's also beautiful and inspiring; but I guess depending on your perceived reality some want it to be not to be taught , learned and in worst case erased. Why? is the question.