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  • Learning from Women of Color working within the United States Forest Service

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    Ramos, Jeanna A.
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    The purpose of this study is to analyze women of colors's (WOC) experiences working within the United States Forest Service (USFS) accessing the challenges of recruitment, retention, and promotional efforts. Using testimonios and Anzaldúa's theory of mestiza consciousness, I found three themes that included white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, presumed incompetence,...
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    this far. You believed in me and with your continued support and motivation, I made it. We stuck by

  • Underrepresentation of minorities in natural resource professions : an examination of African Americans

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    Ponds, Phadrea D.
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    The fact that African Americans are under represented in the natural resource professions is well known and commonly acknowledged. Terms such as conspicuously absent, manifest imbalance and zero representation have all been used to describe the current status of African American natural resource professionals. The data suggests that in the...
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    professional service" (Payne and Theo, 1971). The primary intent in this study was to discover factors

  • The natural history of public works development

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    Robertson, Robert A.
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    A case study of the Eugene Water and Electric Board's planning for the Minto Hydroelectric is examined in terms of social movement theory. It is hypothesized that public works projects have a significant likeness to a social movement and they conform in their essential ingredients to social movement explanations. The...
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    movements in this way by stating: "The distinction between purposes and consequences is especially vital in

  • Tales from the trenches : the people, policies, and procedures of cultural resource management

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    Wilson, Michele L.
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    Since the late 1970s, archaeology has grown into an industry whose practitioners work in both public and private sectors. As an industry, modern archeology is commonly known as Cultural Resources Management, or CRM. CRM emerged from a surplus of employment opportunities made available to archeologists after the passing of National...
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    the United States. In addition, architects and historians were also employed by the WPA through the

  • Perspectives from the Ranching Culture in the 1990's : Addressing Mythological and Environmental Concerns

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    Steward, Judith A.
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    Ideals of freedom, independence, and land ownership helped form and perpetuate the mythology of ranching in the United States. However, stereotypes emerged as a result of distortion from the media and the move away from the land. Social philosophies changed regarding the environment, land use, and the health and safety...
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    popular in the United States and Canada as part of the craze to be western. Anne Nothof writes that the

  • Indian Women Rewriting Themselves : The Representation of "Madness" by Women Writers

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    Singh, Jaspal K., 1951-
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    Representations of "madness" in literature written by women have been the focus of feminist studies in the western world since the Victorian Era. When Charlotte Gilman Perkins wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892, she "met with consternation of disapproving males ...[and] it was virtually ignored for thirty years" (Kasmer 1)....
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    now a physician in the United States, was always labeled "hysterical" and neurotic as a teenager

  • Subsistence variability in the Willamette Valley

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    Havercroft, Francine M.
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    During the summer of 1981, Oregon State University archaeologically tested three prehistoric sites on the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge. Among the sites tested were typical Willamette Valley floodplain and adjacent upland sites. Most settlement-subsistence pattern models proposed for the Willamette Valley have been generated with data from the...
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    , Chuck Kifer, Mike McCandless, and Lucie Tisdale. The analysis was made possible by the support of the

  • Governmental policies and the preservation and display of Native American cultural resources in the middle Columbia Basin

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    Michael, Elva Olson
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    Prior to advent of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest, the Middle Columbia River Basin was the location of highly developed native cultures. For centuries it was the center of very important native trade networks that extended over western North America and a site of important intertribal rituals relating to renewal...
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    , and by the Smithsonian Institution, to save what was possible in the short time before these

  • The rhetoric of the Dalai Lama

    Creator:
    Gorsevski, Ellen Weihe
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    This thesis examines the rhetoric (persuasive discourse) of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet. The analysis of this thesis provides an historical foundation of understanding for the international campaign of rhetoric which the Dalai Lama has been leading for the past forty years, culminating...
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    a Nonviolent Movement Just as Gandhi in India and Martin Luther King in the United States

  • When Celilo was Celilo : an analysis of salmon use during the past 11,000 years in the Columbia Plateau

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    Thomison, Patrick
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    The presence and significance of salmon for prehistoric and aboriginal people of the Columbia Plateau is a matter of considerable debate among anthropologists, archaeologists and historians. Data from over 100 archaeological sites are scrutinized in the light of an example salmon fishery developed from ethnographic and archaeological information on aboriginal...
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    employed and to define the category each variable was placed in. Salmon bones are listed by number when