Long before there was a city called Boise, the Original Boise Valley People lived here. Author and educator Antoinette Cavanaugh will share their past, present, and future. She will also explore how the Treaty of Fort Boise continues to shape the lives of the Boise Valley People and the Treasure Valley today. 

Antoinette grew up on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes. She has worked as a teacher, administrator, and educational consultant. The Nevada State School Board Association named her Superintendent of the Year. She is now a PhD candidate in Human Development and Family Science in the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. 

Antoinette is also the author of Tammi’ Tetevini, “Ne Hakanni Kimmakkante?” Little Brother Asks, “Where Did I Come From?”, a bilingual Western Shoshone children’s book. She wrote it so that children and adults could read the Shoshoni language as a natural part of everyday life while learning Western Shoshone lifeways.

Come hear Antoinette weave her own story together with the history of the Original Boise Valley People, and learn how this history shapes the valley we share today.