The purpose of this paper is the statement and examination of
relevant data pertaining to the subject of trans-Pacific pre-
Columbian contact. The paper's contents will be organized in to
five major areas: oceanography, ship building, archaeology, religion
and history, plus an introduction and conclusion. Each of
these chapters will...
In 2017, Oregon State University embarked on a project to ensure that
library resources about Oregon Indian tribes are discoverable in
online systems. With a focus on subject access in its local catalog
and in OCLC’s WorldCat database, this ongoing project is comprised of
two main components.
First, because not...
A unique aspect of this study is that it involves an unusually
large number of individuals of American Indian descent. The sample
population was composed of those Indian members of the 1962 high
school graduating class from a six-state area. The selected graduates
came from local public, Bureau of Indian...
This study examines two major issues: (1) to what extent have the
conditions at non-reservation Indian boarding schools, as described by
the Meriam Report of 1928, been in evidence from the beginning?; and
(2) to what extent have these conditions improved since 1928?
The conditions examined are: (1) General Conditions...
This thesis is a study of the dress and accessories of the
Indians on the Pacific Northwest Coast at the time contact with white
man was made, and during the period following contact, until cultural
disintegration was complete.
Information was obtained from historic accounts by early
explorers, and books written...
This study is a synthesis of the available ethnographic and relevant archaeological data pertaining to the Native American groups who formerly occupied the upper Rogue River drainage of southwestern Oregon. The information presented in this synthesis concerns the material, social and religious aspects of aboriginal life as practiced by the...
The purpose of the study was to answer two questions: (1) what are the self concepts and (2) what are the perceptions of skilled occupations of adult Metis in rural northern Alberta? The sample consisted of adult students attending Academic Upgrading programs at Alberta Vocational Centres located in three regions...
A sample of fish remains from two late-prehistoric archaeological sites on the central coast of Oregon were analyzed to partially evaluate two models of aboriginal subsistence-settlement systems. One model is based upon ethnograhpic data, primarily Drucker's (1939), for Yakonen speakers collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The...
In this thesis, stature reconstruction of three prehistoric/protohistoric Native American populations (from Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and South Dakota) was performed using the Fully Anatomical method in order to formulate regression equations and analyze the ability of regression equations of other researchers to accurately estimate the statures within my study...
A study of nutrient intakes was conducted on the Southwest
Oregon non-reservation Indian population during June and July of
1980. Participating households were selected by random methods from
a Southwest Oregon Indian Health Project listing of Indian
households in the six-county area. Twenty-four-hour dietary recalls
were obtained by interview method...