In Southwest Portland, the park once known as Custer Park now has a new permanent identity: Scht Wiwnu Park, a Native name chosen to honor local language and ecology. City officials and tribal partners celebrated the renaming with a ceremony and volunteer huckleberry plantings at the park’s nature patch last Saturday. The change replaces the temporary “A Park” label and is intended to visibly center Indigenous presence in the neighborhood.
Portland Parks & Recreation announced the name online, explaining that Scht Wiwnu (pronounced “ish-chit way-el-noo”) means “path of the…..