Think Out Loud

News Roundtable | Native American Trade Routes | Olympic Politics

By Dave Blanchard (OPB) and Julie Sabatier (OPB)

Aug. 17, 2016 4:37 p.m.

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Phyllis Fletcher, Jack Roberts, and Marisa Zapata discuss some of the biggest local and national stories of the week.

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Amelia Templeton brings us the story of one Willamette Valley man's accidental archeological discovery of a cache of obsidian stones and how they fit into our understanding of how native tribes existed and interacted before white settlers arrived.

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Pacific University Political Science Professor Jules Boykoff, author of Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics, is in Rio. He updates us on the protests, security issues, and politics of the 2016 games