Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific -Lecture and Book Signing with Coll Thrush, PhD

Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Time: 11:00AM - 12:00 Noon

Location: Ford Room at the Columbia River Maritime Museum

Seating for up to 50, first come first serve.

Included with Museum Admission. Museum Members are free.

In this provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island coasts, historian Coll Thrush discusses what maritime disasters can tell us about Native-newcomer relations and about the region's history more broadly.

Coll Thrush is a professor of history at the University of British Columbia and founding co-editor of the Indigenous Confluences book series at the University of Washington Press. He is the author previously of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place and Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire.