Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

Start Over

Filtering by: Decade 1970-1979 Degree Field Anthropology File Format application/pdf

The Yakima Indians : study and analysis of the Yakima water rights

Creator:

Selam, Leroy Bennie

Abstract:

This thesis is an ethnohistoric study of the water rights of the Yakima Confederated Tribes. The study considers the water rights issues of the Yakimas from the cultural viewpoint at the time of European contact to the present legal and political situation. It traces the many obstacles the Yakimas have...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Man and the land : an ecological history of fire and grazing on eastern Oregon rangelands

Creator:

Shinn, Dean Allison

Abstract:

Ecological and historical information are combined in examining the environmental influence of fire and grazing on rangelands in eastern Oregon through time. Competitive relationships between herbaceous and woody flora in the northern Great Basin are discussed, focusing broadly on the shrubsteppe regions 'of Franklin and Dyrness (1973) but with special...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis