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  • The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

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    Boulware, Brooke L.
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    A cultural landscape analysis of two historic cemeteries in St. Paul, Oregon demonstrates that the residents of this early community were unknowingly using grave markers to express their worldview and the identities that they felt were most important. Because of the historical and cultural development of this community as the...
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    ................................ 98 Figure 45 – The grave of Christ Goeldl (d. 1900) (St. Paul Mission Historical Society

  • 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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    Anthropology presented on December 23, 2009. Title: ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATION: SHELDON JACKSON TO PAUL

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

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    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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    Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul

  • Institutionalizing Science in Oregon : The Role of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914

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    Read, Richard Thomas
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    In February 1905 the Oregon State Academy of Sciences formed in Portland to promote scientific research and diffusion of scientific knowledge in Oregon. The founders also planned to assist in the discovery and development of the state's natural resources. The Academy was the first scientific society in Oregon with professional...
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    century: David D. Whitney, "State Academies of Science," Science 50 (December 1919), pp. 517-518; Paul P

  • The Indian New Deal and the Effects it had on Federally Recognized Tribes

    Creator:
    Hall, Gabriann
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    This paper covers the impact of Franklin D Roosevelt's, "Indian New Deal" and the effect it had on federally recognized Indian tribes. I have taken an in-depth look at specific areas of New Deal legislation including the Indian Reorganization Act, the Johnson O'Malley Act, and the Indian Arts and Crafts...
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    Abstract approved- urt eters This paper covers the impact of Franklin D Roosevelt's, "Indian New Deal

  • Fantasy and Hate: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Der Giftpilz

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    Rosenberg, Matthew S.
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    In Nazi Germany, 1938, Der Stürmer publishing house, under the control of Julius Striecher, published Der Giftpilz or The Poisonous Mushroom; an anti-Semitic children's book. Disseminated in the thousands, Der Giftpilz became infamously known as a children's book so grotesque it could be, and in fact was, admitted as evidence...
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    May the G-d of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, rest among us in peace. Anything I have achieved

  • A Narrative Analysis of Captain America’s New Deal

    Creator:
    Ledbetter, Forest L.
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    In response to the events on September the Eleventh, various media attempted to make sense of the seemingly radical altered political landscape. Comic books, though traditionally framed as low brow pulp, were no exception. This thesis is a work of rhetorical criticism. It applies Walter Fisher's Narrative Paradigm to a...
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    to each of the members of my committee, Dr. Elizabeth Root, Dr. Paul Wanke, Dr. Steven Zielke, and

  • The Schultz Fire: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on its History, Management, and Ecological Effects

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    Ranseen, Susanne N.
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    This thesis examines the Schultz Fire as a case study to explain the complex history of fire suppression management in America’s forests, and to gain further understanding of how management practices have affected the increase in fire severity levels and how forests respond to such a disturbance. The thesis objectives...
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    ..................................................................... - 84 - APPENDIX D: PLOT PAPERWORK

  • Peace, But Not at Any Price : The Effects of Rapid Military Demobilization on US Foreign Policy and the Progression of the Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1953

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    Jones, Sean G.
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    The research conducted here originated with the question of what caused the massive build-up of nuclear arsenals, which included ever larger and more powerful bombs and delivery systems from them, in the United States and the Soviet Union, even though the consensus beforehand was that nuclear energy should be prohibited...
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    American strategy. Several historians, including Michael D. Gordon and Morton A. Kaplan, trace the

  • The Role of Southern Oregon's Coastal Islands in Prehistoric Subsistence

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    Gard, Howard A.
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    The portion of the Oregon coast extending from Cape Blanco south into California has long been recognized as a distinct physiographic region, with probable ramifications for prehistoric subsistence and settlement patterns. Several researchers have proposed models outlining a greater reliance upon marine/littoral resources among groups within this region, while more...
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    . Chemetunne G. To lowa D. Chetleshin Figure 2. Distribution of Native Groups Animal Foods Chinook salmon