Washington
Postsecondary Success for Native American Students: A Brief Summary of Research, Programs, and Practices
Alternate Title
Short Turnaround Report ; no. 0094-2011-2
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA)
Description
Overview of the issues, summary of current research and practices, relevant data, and definitions of related terms.
Precedent and the Aboriginal Response to Global
Incursions: Smallpox and Identity Reformation
Among the Coast Salish
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Keith Thor Carlson
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, vol. 18, no. 2, Global Histories / Histoires mondiales, 2007, pp. 165-201
Description
Examines the contact-era epidemics among the Salish as an expression of globalism.
The Press, the Boldt Decision, and Indian-White Relations
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce G. Miller
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 1993, pp. 75-97
Description
Examines newspaper coverage of Aboriginals in the Skagit Valley of Northwest Washington State during the treaty-related dispute over salmon fishing.
Race, Colonialism, and the Politics of Indian Sports Names and Mascots: The Washington Football Team Case
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kevin Bruyneel
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 2, 2016, pp. 1-24
Description
Looks at the history and examines the role of race in the contemporary debate over this issue.
Raven Helps the Indians
Alternate Title
The Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest ; Level 1, Book 20
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Coast Area Planning Committee
Description
Children's story retells the Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-3.
Related Material: Lesson Plan.
Reconnoitering "Pueblo" Ethnicity: The 1852 Tesuque Delegation to Washington
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Peter M. Whiteley
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 45, no. 3, Autumn, 2003, pp. 437-518
Description
Discusses the cultural and historical background of Pueblo Indians and U.S. relations, the reasons for the trip to Washington, and key aspects of Pueblo identity and ethnicity.
A Reevaluation of the Marmes Rockshelter Radiocarbon Chronology
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John C. Sheppard
Peter E. Wigand
Carl E. Gustafson
Meyer Rubin
American Antiquity, vol. 52, no. 1, January 1987, pp. 118-125
Description
Examines the stratigraphy and radiocarbon date problems of a shelter that humans began to use around 8,500 B.C.
Rights of Passage: Property Rights in North American Pacific Salmon Stocks
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathleen Sullivan
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, vol. 21, no. 1, May 1998, pp. 53-64
Description
Examines how efforts to manage global salmon resources reinforce the concept of nation-state sovereignty.
Running for Missing and Murdered Women: Expansion of Tribal Court Criminal Jurisdiction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert O. Saunooke
The Judges Journal, vol. 59, no. 2, Spring, 2020, pp. 22-25
Description
Discusses the lack of tribal jurisdictional sovereignty required to protect Indigenous female populations in the United States.
The Safe Futures Initiative at Chief Leschi Schools: A School-Based Tribal Response to Alcohol-Drug Abuse, Violence-Gang Violence, and Crime on an Urban Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George M. Guilmet
David L. Whited
Norm Dorpat
Cherlyn Pijanowski
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, 1998, pp. 407-440
Description
Looks at the Chief Leschi Schools system on the Puyallup Reservation, in Washington, with a focus on urban context
and demographics.
Shadow of the Salmon
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Billy Frank
Steve Robinson
Michael Pearce
Description
Docu-drama about a young man from the Lakota Sioux Nation in South Dakota who travels to Washington State to live with his uncle to learn about his relatives, the coastal Salish. In the process he also learns about the environment and the salmon.
Duration: 43:59
See resource guide Shadow of the Salmon: Respect the Salmon, Respect Yourself.
Shadow of the Salmon: Respect the Salmon, Respect Yourself : A Resource Guide for Eighth Grade Teachers
Documents & Presentations
Description
Guide accompanies docu-drama, Shadow of the Salmon. Provides links for resources, suggestions for classroom activities, stories to read aloud in class and information about history and resource management in Washington State.
The Shell (Fish) Game: Rhetoric, Images, and (Dis)Illusions in Federal Court
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jay Miller
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, 1999, pp. 159-173
Description
Examines the US Federal Court Case to determine the Aboriginal treaty rights, in Washington State, to take Shellfish (in the law case shellfish were termed all marine life other than fin fish).
Skunk
Alternate Title
The Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest ; Level 1, Book 19
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Coast Area Planning Committee
Description
Children's book retells the Muckleshoot traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-3.
Related Material: Lesson Plan.
Smokeless Tobacco Use and Attitudes toward Smokeless Tobacco among Native Americans and Other Adolescents in the Northwest
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roberta L. Hall
Don Dexter
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 78, no. 12, December 1988, pp. 1586-1588
Description
Examines the rate of smokeless tobacco use in Grades 6, 9, and 11 school students which was; 34% of males, and 24% for females in 1988.
Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions ; The Whaling People of the West Coast of Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alan D. McMillan
BC Studies, no. 174, Summer, 2012, pp. 123-125
Description
Book reviews of:
Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors by Charlotte Cote.
The Whaling People of the West Coast of Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery by Eugene Y. Arima and Alan L. Hoover.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 123.
The Spokane Tribe's Multipathway Subsistence Exposure Scenario and Screening Level RME
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara L. Harper
Brian Flett
Stuart Harris
Corn Abeyta
Fred Kirschner
Risk Analysis, vol. 22, no. 3, 2002, pp. 513-526
Description
Provides an exposure scenario that may help improve the risk assessment of tribal communities whom practice a traditional subsistence lifestyle and diet.
Technology Becomes the Object: The Use of Electronic Media at the National Museum of the American Indian
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gwyneira Isaac
Journal of Material Culture, vol. 13, no. 3, November 2008, pp. 287-310
Description
Discusses the way museums use media technology and Native American objects to educate and challenge the museum experience.
"They Made Themselves Our Guests": Power Relationships in the Interior Plateau Region of the Cordillera in the Fur Trade Era
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Duane Thomson
Marianne Ignace
BC Studies, no. 146, Summer, 2005, pp. 3-[?]
Description
Concentrates on the complex relationship between fur traders and the Salish nations residing in the Columbia and Fraser River valleys.
Today She Sits among Them: Spiritual Leadership, Continuity, and Renewal in the Cowlitz Indian Tribe
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine Dupres
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring, 2013, pp. 77-99
Description
Examines the sense of shared identity by focusing on the role of a specific spiritual leader and the workings of the tribal council.
Tolowa Indian Shakers and the Role of Prophecy at Smith River, California
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Al Logan Slagle
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3, Prophets: Religious Leaders and Revitalization Movements, Summer, 1985, pp. 353-374
Description
Investigates the spread and appeal of the Indian Shakers religion, that practices traditional beliefs, to the Tolowas people into California
Too Long, Too Silent: The Threat to Cedar and the Sacred Ways of the Skokomish
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
D. Michael Pavel
Gerald B. Miller
Mary J. Pavel
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 53-80
Description
Why the Skokomish have a concern over the Cedar's fate and the legal issues surrounding efforts to protect the Cedar.
Towards an Art History of Northwest Coast First Nations: 3. Contemporary Period (1930-present)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ira Jacknis
BC Studies, no. 135, pp. 137-143
Description
Brief discussion of art from the time museums ceased collecting extensively to the present, with some discussion on the prominent artists and their particular art form.
Towards an Art History of Northwest Coast First Nations: I."Traditional" Period (1770-1870)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ira Jacknis
BC Studies, no. 135, Perspectives on Aboriginal Culture, Autumn, 2002, pp. 47-53
Description
Brief discussion of changes in art from the time of contact with Europeans to the beginning of artifact collection.
Traditional Coast Salish Foods
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Washington Office of Public Instruction]
Description
List of approximately 300 food sources divided by shellfish and marine life, fish and reptiles, mammals, birds, and plants. Information gathered 2003 survey of 130 archaeological sites, ethnographic accounts and Coast Salish Elders, hunters, fisherman and gatherers.
Traditional Foods in Native America: A Compendium of Traditional Foods Stories from American Indian and Alaska Native Communities. Part IV
Alternate Title
Traditional Food Stories
Traditional Foods in Native America: A Compendium
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Chelsea Wesner
Native Diabetes Wellness Program
Description
Presents nine stories with the central theme of reclaiming and preserving ancestral homelands to support and strengthen Native American foodways.
Traditions of the Quinault Indians
Alternate Title
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 4. Anthropology ; v. 3
[Publications of] the Jesup North Pacific Expedition ; v. [2], pt. 3
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Livingston Farrand
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History
Description
Forms part of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 4 (p. [77]-132).