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

    Creator:
    Poet, Rebecca McClelland
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Technological progress, disacculturation, and our public schools

    Creator:
    Morita, Sally J.
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    The problems facing our nation's public schools today cannot be divorced from our enthusiasm for technology and the positive relationship we believe it shares with our perception of progress. Based on the second law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy, author Jeremy Rifkin argues that the development of increasingly "efficient"...
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    9 economist Adam Smith to biologist Henri Milne-Edwards to Darwin. In The Wealth of Nations, Smith

  • The Oregon Trail Sesquicentennial as Interpreted by Museums on the Oregon Trail

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    Fackler, Amy E.
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    This study describes and analyzes Oregon Trail related exhibits of eleven museums and two interpretive centers that are geographically located along the Oregon Trail from Baker City, Oregon to Portland, Oregon. The exhibits were featured at the facilities during the 1993 Oregon Trail Sesquicentennial, a celebration that was initiated and...
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    exceptions. Henry Nash Smith delved deeply into the mythic West in his book, Virgin Land (Smith 1970[1950

  • Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

    Creator:
    Hagerty, Dorothy Dean
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    The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas. The mutual-aid...
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    . Perry and Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, Englishmen who believed the world's cultural development was

  • British policies toward Palestine

    Creator:
    Earl-Taylor, Michael A.
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    This study traces British government policies with regard to Palestine from the time the British Expeditionary Forces under General Allenby invested Jerusalem in December 1917 to the imposition of the Mandate with Britain as the Mandatory power, which came into effect on July 22, 1922. The first chapter provides an...
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    Elizabeth Campbell. DEDICATION This thesis is dedicated to Ethel and Delbert Smith of Springfield

  • Willamette Mission Archeological Project : Phase III Assessment

    Creator:
    Weber, Mary K. (Mary Kathryn)
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    Company cultural material. The kind help from Shelley Smith and Tony Walters, ethnobotanists; Dave

  • Willamette Mission archeological project : phase III assessment

    Creator:
    Chapman, Judith Sanders
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    Smith and Tony Walters, ethnobotanists; Dave Schmitt, faunal analyst; Robert Krahmer, wood analyst

  • Efficiency in Oregon's commercial salmon fisheries : a historical perspective

    Creator:
    Hatley, Thomas Alfred
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    Historic changes that have taken place on Oregon's commercial salmon fisheries are described in terms of their effects on the efficiency of fishermen. This historical analysis provides a background for comparative efficiency studies of Columbia River gillnetters and ocean trollers with the objective of determining which harvester group was more...
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    . Court land L. Smith for his suggestions and help in directing this study. Thanks is also due to Dr

  • Champoeg, a perspective of a frontier community in Oregon, 1830-1861

    Creator:
    Speulda-Drews, Lou Ann
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    Champoeg, located along the Willamette River, developed as a transportation center for both river and overland travel and as a shipping point for agricultural products. Retired employees of the Hudson's Bay Company were the first to settle in the area, in the 1830s. American settlers began arriving in large numbers...
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    Hubbard, Charles McRoy, William Gray, Sidney Smith and George Gay. The committee members reflected the

  • Alaska Native Education : Sheldon Jackson to Paul Jensen 1884-1984

    Creator:
    Martain, Jacqueline
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    This thesis will look at Paul Jensen while he was an education professor at Western Oregon State College in Monmouth, Oregon, and his role in Alaska Native education while working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Dr. Jensen's work coincided with the last twenty-five years of Bureau of Indian Affairs...
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    . Charles K. Ray, A Program Of Education For Alaskan Natives, 30, 32; Smith, 445; D. Mitchell, 87. 2