Laura Berg is a writer and editor living and working in Portland, Oregon. She edited The First Oregonians, a book about the state’s Indian peoples. The Oregon Council for the Humanities published and released the book in October 2007.

Ms. Berg edits and writes about Northwest salmon and ecology and national and regional American Indian issues. She has a publisher interested in Let Them Keep Their Promises, a book-length manuscript she authored about Columbia River tribes’ cultural and legal struggles to maintain their fishing traditions.