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  • 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
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    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...
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    , the wilderness, the Congress, and the Office of Indian Affairs. Agents were accountable, not only for

  • Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

    Creator:
    Purdy, Sarah E.
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    For centuries humans have been searching for precious metals. The search for gold has greatly changed the landscape of the American West, beginning in the 1850s and continuing today. Various gold rushes around the country created mining colonies in remote areas, thereby connecting the frontier with the rest of America...
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    . Darkly shaded areas (American River Mining Co. and the Clair Johnson Dredge) represent operations with

  • A study of acculturation : ORMU57, Portland's Old Chinatown, ca. 1870-1920

    Creator:
    Wernz, Maralee
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    This archaeological based research uses ceramics in the study of acculturation from a site excavated by an urban archaeology contract firm, and utilizes the theories of consumer choice, ethnicity and acculturation. Artifact analysis took place in the form of minimum vessel counts, artifact relative frequencies, and Chinese artifact values, as...
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    ............................................................... 116 TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued) EURO-AMERICAN CERAMICS . 118 ORMU57 Euro-American Ceramic

  • Cultural differences and business interaction : an analysis of conflicts between Chinese and American ways of life

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    Chen, Yuejian, 1958-
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    This study uses an anthropological perspective to discuss the cultural differences between Chinese and Americans in business contexts. Through an analysis of case studies related by businesspersons involved in Sino-US trade, and by an analysis of literature on the subject, it describes how cultural differences contribute to the problems and...
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    analysis of conflicts between Chinese and American ways of life AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Yuejian

  • Theoretical perspectives on Latin American indigenous development, with reference to a case study of Cebadas, Ecuador

    Creator:
    Ocana, Juan Carlos
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    This thesis presents a discussion of the main materialistic theories proposed to explain the process of development among the indigenous population of Latin America. Four theoretical approaches are presented and discussed. The first one deals with the social group referred to as peasants. The second one explains the process of...
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    Perspectives on Latin American Indigenous Development, With Reference to a Case Study of Cebadas. Ecuador. A

  • A Game of Silent Irreverence : Passive Resistance in The Dalles, Oregon

    Creator:
    Maddoux, Maryanne
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    210 East First Street (site 35WS453) contains the only extant remains of a once thriving Overseas Chinese settlement, in the city of The Dalles, Oregon. Very little is known about the everyday lives of these early settlers, or the pressures that they faced. This thesis will help to enrich the...
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    41. Lee Yuen………………………………………………………………………..110 42. American Spirit by Noboru Foujioka

  • Latinos, loggers and old hippies : rural revitalization in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Kubein, Adele
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    This ethnography looks at the processes a rural Oregon community is undergoing as some members attempt to re-animate the community by creating a community center after the loss of its school and market, two vital services that provided venues for social interaction and engagement. The methodology for this research includes...
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    ............................................................................................ 11 2.1 Changes in Rural Communities and Their Roles in American Life ....................... 11

  • Blood, bondage and chains : a legacy of kinship between black-red people

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    Bertha, Clarissa
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    My research is looking at the cultural and kinship ties of African and Native peoples and how our worlds were forged together by colonization, bonded during the institutionalize state of shackles and slavery and how the legacy of these tools of genocide are now tearing us apart. Being of mixed...
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    . Being of mixed African and Native American heritage, I understand the significant role slavery and its

  • Just Beneath the Surface : Analysis of Excavations at 35WS453, The Dalles Chinatown

    Creator:
    French, Jamie
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    In a mostly abandoned block, capped by concrete, the building at 210 East 1st Street, The Dalles, Oregon still stands as one of three remaining structures. This building housed the Wing Hong Hai Company, a mercantile store and Chinese laundry, from 1889 to 1926. Beneath the modern concrete that encircles...
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    ........................................................................................... 77 5.12 Euro-American pipe bowl

  • International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

    Creator:
    Visconti, Lauren A.
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    Projected to reach one million people next year, international students in the United States are undergoing a transformative educational migration. Moving away from the existing study abroad paradigm is the first step to more accurately understand the lived experience of an educational migrant. Discovering the perceptions of what value an...
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    educational migrant. Discovering the perceptions of what value an American education holds and