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  • Non-reservation Indian boarding schools, 1879-1969

    Creator:
    Jaworski, Carole Ann
    Abstract:
    This study examines two major issues: (1) to what extent have the conditions at non-reservation Indian boarding schools, as described by the Meriam Report of 1928, been in evidence from the beginning?; and (2) to what extent have these conditions improved since 1928? The conditions examined are: (1) General Conditions...
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    total expense of the United States Army could be charged, directly or indirectly, to the Indians. Using

  • Governmental policies and the preservation and display of Native American cultural resources in the middle Columbia Basin

    Creator:
    Michael, Elva Olson
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    Prior to advent of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest, the Middle Columbia River Basin was the location of highly developed native cultures. For centuries it was the center of very important native trade networks that extended over western North America and a site of important intertribal rituals relating to renewal...
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    objects and 13 situations which may exist in any state or all of the states of the United States

  • Pottery manufacture analysis : an experimental means for assessing technological continuity in the Altamont region

    Creator:
    Stoltz, Arleyn Winifred
    Abstract:
    Pottery manufacture analysis, an aspect of experimental archeology, is developed and used to compare and test through experimental reconstruction, data on pottery from the Altamont region (southern Alberta, Canada and northcentral Montana, U.S.). The analysis uses major variables of (1) manufacturing process and (2) product characteristics to formulate models of...
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    , United States, hence the name. The region 2 extends from the foot hills of the Rocky Mountains; from

  • Employee theft : a study of the major sociological, economic and business causal theories

    Creator:
    Voit, Irene Elaine
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    Although employee theft is claimed by many authors to be a significant problem in America with corrosive and damaging effects upon business and society, very little research has been done to establish the causes of such behavior. The purpose of this thesis was to identify, discuss, and critically evaluate theories...
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    Chamber of Commerce of the United States stated, embezzlement of $100,000 by a white-collar vice

  • The reflection of culture in biological evolution

    Creator:
    Yates, Dean Arnold
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    Kelso's theory of Biocultural Evolution states that as culture evolves, the variation between groups diminishes while the variation within groups increases. The theory is tested with stature, cephalic index and nasal index. Means and standard deviations for these traits are examined for 237 ethnic groups. The groups are organized according...
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    - ing to their stage of social organization: band, tribe, chiefdom and state. The theory is not

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

    Creator:
    Selam, Leroy Bennie
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    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...
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    . Third, to describe the treaty negotiated by the representatives of the United States of America and the

  • The formation of capitalist market-relations in the Arab Middle-East

    Creator:
    El-Ashban, Abdul Aziz
    Abstract:
    The formation of capitalistic market-relations in the Third World (known also as the underdeveloped world) has been an ongoing process for hundreds of years. The degree of such capitalistic formation has been mainly a function of the quantitative and qualitative nature of the contact between the industrialized metropolitan centers (basically...
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    to the current general state of confusion, distortion, and trivializa- tion of the social sciences

  • An Analysis of Visitor Awareness of Avalanche Danger at Three Areas - Mt. Hood, Oregon

    Creator:
    Couche, Stephen W.
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    Use of backcountry areas in winter by crosscountry skiers, snowshoers, climbers, snowmobilers and others has increased rapidly in the Mt. Hood area of Oregon in recent years. With this increase in use a larger segment of the user population is being exposed to potential a.,pl.H11 Winger. purpose of this study...
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    the last thirty years the mountains of the western United States have been witness to the growing

  • Transactional analysis applied to a community development issue

    Creator:
    Manolescu, Kathleen M.
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    Barth's theory of transactional analysis is applied to the community of Tiller, Oregon and its reaction to a development proposal. Community behavior patterns vis-a-vis the development proposal are examined from a processual point of view to determine how these patterns are generated. The community's history and contemporary situation are described....
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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master

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

    Creator:
    Shinn, Dean Allison
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    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...
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    . During the Pleistocene Epoch North America supported a wide diversity of large mammals. Toward the end