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  • Zooarchaeologjcal and Taphonomic Investigations of Site 35JA42, Upper Applegate River, Southwestern Oregon

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    Schmitt, Dave N.
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    Site 35JA42 represents the first protohistoric village complex excavated in Southwest Oregon. Analyses of animal bones recovered from the site offer the first significant insights into human subsistence behaviors in this region. Although the faunal assemblage is extremely fragmented, detailed zooarchaeological analysis indicates that deer were the primary meat resource...
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  • Work pants worn by loggers in Western Oregon, 1920-1970

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    Gullickson, Mark A.
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    With the arrival of European settlers to Western Oregon nearly 150 years ago came new methods of forest management. Early settlers' forest practices consisted of little more than harvesting what seemed an endless supply of timber. Forestry in the 20th century eventually incorporated such management concerns as re-forestation, biodiversity, wildlife...
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    Officer, Carhartt, Inc.; Jack Abercrombie and Terri Young, C. C. Filson Company; Jerry Probst, Archivist

  • 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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  • 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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    area for "benevolent action" as a centralized Willamette Valley locality would be (D. Lee and Frost

  • 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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    Figure 1. Map of site locality. : BU I LW NO CONTOUR INTERVAL = 20 FEET d mountain crest (Willamette

  • Whale Cove (35LNC60) : an archaeological investigation on the central Oregon coast

    Creator:
    Rogers, Ann Bennett
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    The Whale Cove Site, 35LNC60, is a shell midden, showing occupations from 3010 B.P. to 330 B.P., spanning the Early and Late Littoral Periods. Analysis of mammalian faunal remains, bone and antler tools, lithics and discriptions of recovered shellfish artifacts allows for chronological refinement of the previously mentioned archeologically defined...
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    their encouragement and comments. I wish to thank Cynthia D. Lipman, R. Joe Bennett, Liese Pessel

  • Using Racial Humor at Work: Promoting Positive Discussions on Race

    Creator:
    Foxworth, Teela
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    Employees from two different organizations, a public university and a hospital in Oregon, were asked to take part in an interview to assess their perceptions of how race is discussed in their workplace, if racial humor is used in their workplace, if this humor offers an opportunity to discuss race...
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    kindness” (Harms, 1943, p. 353). Present day comedians that exhibit this type of humor include Jerry

  • Upper Deschutes River Basin Prehistory: A Preliminary Examination of Flaked Stone Tools and Debitage

    Creator:
    Taggart, Michael W.
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    The prehistory of Central Oregon is explored through the examination of six archaeological sites and two isolated finds from the Upper Deschutes River Basin. Inquiry focuses on the land use, mobility, technological organization, and raw material procurement of the aboriginal inhabitants of the area. Archaeological data presented here are augmented...
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  • Unpacking Success: Progressive Politics and Stalled Gender Equity at the Mitraniketan People's College

    Creator:
    Glick, Stephanie Nahima
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    Founded over fifty years ago by K. Viswanathan, the Mitraniketan educational facility in Kerala, India provides literacy and vocational education to socially marginalized women, men, and children through nursery, elementary, high school and an educational preparatory program for young adults. Viswanathan founded the school on several ideals including Neo-Marxist, Quaker,...
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    formal system of education which is more degree & [d]iploma oriented. His concept is of providing an

  • Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

    Creator:
    Bruno, Mark P.
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    This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
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