Eighteen acres of the Neawanna Point Habitat Preserve was returned to the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederate Tribes by the North Coast Land Conservancy earlier this year.Hailey Hoffman/The Astorian
Architect Todd Lawson visited the North Coast growing up, but it wasnât until college that he started vigorously exploring his roots to the area and his ties to the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes. Now, heâs taking part in preserving the history of his people by designing a longhouse to be built on the tribeâs land near the Necanicum Estuary in Seaside.
âAs an architect, designer and artist, itâs kind of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do something really meaningful,â Lawson said.