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Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

Creator:: Poet, Rebecca McClelland
Abstract:: In 1986, researchers from Oregon State University, led by Dr. David Brauner, came to the small Catholic community of St. Paul, Oregon as part of ongoing research on the French-Canadian inhabitants of the Willamette Valley between 1829 and the mid-1860s. They were searching for the remains of the first Catholic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: religious instruction, baptizing babies, and blessing marriages. 16 In January, 1839, Blanchet left

The Role of Southern Oregon's Coastal Islands in Prehistoric Subsistence

Creator:: Gard, Howard A.
Abstract:: The portion of the Oregon coast extending from Cape Blanco south into California has long been recognized as a distinct physiographic region, with probable ramifications for prehistoric subsistence and settlement patterns. Several researchers have proposed models outlining a greater reliance upon marine/littoral resources among groups within this region, while more...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and January. Less than 5% of the annual precipitation occurs in July and August. At Brookings, in the

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

Creator:: Van Laere, M. Susan
Abstract:: The Coast Reservation of Oregon was established under Executive Order of President Franklin Pierce in November, 1855, as a homeland for the southern Oregon tribes. It was an immense, isolated wilderness, parts of which had burned earlier in the century. There were some prairies where farming was possible, but because...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The expansion of Catholicism : an exploration of St. Joseph's College, the first Catholic boarding school for boys within the Oregon territory

Creator:: Hill, Cayla L.
Abstract:: St. Joseph's College was located within St. Paul, Oregon, the first Roman Catholic mission in the Pacific Northwest. The St. Paul mission was finally established in 1839 by Father Francois Blanchet, four years after the French-Canadian settlers in the area, appropriately known as French Prairie, had requested the presence of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Cayla L. Hill for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology

The effects of the Mazama tephra-falls : a geoarchaeological approach

Creator:: Matz, Stephan E.
Abstract:: About 7,000 years ago two major tephra-falls blanketed the Pacific Northwest in volcanic ash. These two tephra-falls, identified as the Llao and climatic tephra-falls, were a part of the eruptive events that led up to the collapse of Mount Mazama to form Crater Lake in the southern Oregon Cascades. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

Creator:: Boulware, Brooke L.
Abstract:: A cultural landscape analysis of two historic cemeteries in St. Paul, Oregon demonstrates that the residents of this early community were unknowingly using grave markers to express their worldview and the identities that they felt were most important. Because of the historical and cultural development of this community as the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Brooke L. Boulware for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Anthropology

Sharing the past effectively : an evaluation of excavations in the Passport In Time program

Creator:: Dickson, Catherine E.
Abstract:: The United States Forest Service's Passport In Time program is designed to involve the public in archaeology on National Forest land. Three of the program's goals are: 1) allow archaeologists to conduct research they would not otherwise have the time or the budget to conduct; 2) teach the public about...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: telephone. We scheduled and conducted interviews between November 1996 and January 1997. After obtaining

Salvage Archaeology of the Ritsch Site, 35304 : A Late Prehistoric Village Site on the Central Rogue River, Oregon

Creator:: Wilson, Bart McLean
Abstract:: Site 35J04 is located on the south bank of the Rogue River, four miles west of Grants Pass, Oregon. Excavation of the site was conducted in 1976 by Oregon State University under contract to the Corvallis branch of CH2M/Hill. Eight artifact assemblages were distinguished during the analysis of the site....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: January 3.9°C Minimum January -.3°C Average July 21.2°C Maximum July 32.3°C Precipitation Average

Regional Archaeological Model of the Luckiamute Band Settlement Patterns

Creator:: Bell, James Walter
Abstract:: Human settlement patterns are the ways in which people locate themselves over the terrain in their area of occupation. Settlement pattern prediction attempts to define and understand the factors in culture, technology, and environment that shape the spatial distribution of habitation sites for a given group of people. A systematic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: others, notably Jeffrey R. Parsons (1972), and Robert L. Bettinger (1977), terrain classification and

Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

Creator:: Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
Abstract:: Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Alexandra L. Simmons

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Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

The Role of Southern Oregon's Coastal Islands in Prehistoric Subsistence

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

The expansion of Catholicism : an exploration of St. Joseph's College, the first Catholic boarding school for boys within the Oregon territory

The effects of the Mazama tephra-falls : a geoarchaeological approach

The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

Sharing the past effectively : an evaluation of excavations in the Passport In Time program

Salvage Archaeology of the Ritsch Site, 35304 : A Late Prehistoric Village Site on the Central Rogue River, Oregon

Regional Archaeological Model of the Luckiamute Band Settlement Patterns

Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

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