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  • 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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    Yakima Indians: Study and Analysis of the Yakima Water Rights Abstract approved: (Signature) John Dunn

  • Drum Languages and Their Messages

    Creator:
    Jewett, Susan E.
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    With over 800 languages spoken on the continent of Africa, inter-cultural communication has always been difficult. In addition, many of the peoples of Africa have experienced colonial oppression. Various powers have sought to interfere with intra-cultural dialogues and the free flow of information. Their effectiveness, however, was limited because of...
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    privacy ii AssocWe Professor of Anthropology Redacted for privacy) Chairperson of Department /W

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

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    El-Ashban, Abdul Aziz
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    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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    Charles W. Cormack The formation of capitalistic market-relations in the Third World (known also as the

  • 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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    three areas, Mt. Hood, Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Stephen W. Concise for the degree or

  • 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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    Economics Redacted for Privacy -W. Bruce Shepard, Assistant Professor of Political Science Redacted for

  • Evaluating the quality of teaching in art : a social judgment analysis

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    Browne, Beverly Ann
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    This study, based on Brunswik's (1952, 1956) lens model, examined the judgment policies employed by 67 art students and faculty when they evaluate instruction. Four groups of subjects, non-art majors, undergraduate art majors, graduate and bachelor of fine arts students, and faculty members, judged a series of 35 hypothetical teacher...
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    express my thanks to my committee: to Alan Munro as committee chairman, to Dr. John Gillis for the

  • Schulenburg's Tsimshian Grammar

    Creator:
    Schulenburg, Albrecht Conon, Graf von der, 1865-1902 and Flaherty, Virginia C.
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    thanks go, too, to John A. Dunn, a committee member until taking a position at the University of Oklahoma

  • 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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    course of study could not have begun. Many thanks also go to Dr. William W. Chilcote and to Dr. Roberta

  • An attempted standardization of a reading and writing skills test used at Oregon State University's Communication Skills Center

    Creator:
    Carman, Betty Lou
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    The objective of the investigator in carrying out this study is: to evaluate the reliability and validity of the ENGLISH SKILLS TEST-REVISED (EST-R); to construct local norms based on a small sample of subjects from Oregon State University's WR. 40X; to investigate the statistical terms and methods used in educational...
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    Reading and Writing Laboratory," p. 438. 6 Ibid., p. 43. 7 John W. Gregory, "An Approach to Functional

  • The beat generation : a rhetoric of negation

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    Mackaman, Julie Irene
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    The Beat Generation was an American counter-culture movement in the 1950's. Comprised of nomadic writers, poets, actors, musicians, and artists, the Beat movement represented no systematic philosophy and its most distinguishing characteristic was its apolitical disengagement from society. The Beats offered no substantive alternatives to the existing social order, but...
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    . The "first conjunction" of the Beat movement, accord- ing to author John Tytell, was in 1944 when