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Contributors
Stephen Dow Beckham is Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., Professor of History at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he has taught since 1977. He received his B.A. in history and biology from the University of Portland and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history and anthropology from UCLA. He has written many articles and reviews and is the author of several books, including Requiem for a People: The Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen.
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Andrew H. Fisher earned a B.A. in history from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in history from Arizona State University. Currently an instructor at Portland Community College–Sylvania, he will reluctantly leave the Northwest this fall to take a professorship at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. His article is based on his dissertation, "People of the River: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity," which he plans to publish as a book.
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Chris Friday is Professor and Chair in the Department of History at Western Washington University, where he is also Director of the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies. He teaches Pacific Northwest and Native American history, and his research focuses on race and class in the American West. Friday grew up near the Lelooska family, attended school in Woodland, Washington, and then went to Lewis & Clark College in Portland. He is indebted to his many teachers, formal and informal, in those locations.
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Ives Goddard is Senior Linguist in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He has worked on endangered Native American languages for more than forty years, especially those of the Algonquian family. He edited volume 17, Languages, of the Smithsonian's Handbook of North American Indians (1996) and compiled the wall map Native Languages and Language Families of North America (1999).
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James J. Kopp is Director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University and has presented and published papers on several aspects of the utopian experience in America, including a presentation on the Oregon Chautauqua circuit titled "Eden within Eden: Exploring Oregon's Utopian Heritage."
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Thomas Love is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Environmental Studies at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, where he has taught since 1983. He is also a fifth-generation Portlander. He has worked primarily on the political ecology of development in the central Andes of Peru and in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently finishing a book on the evolution of regional identity in relation to place in Arequipa, southern Peru.
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Ross A. Smith is a trail descendant and researcher whose ancestors were among the travelers who participated in the first three attempts at finding a new "overland" route into Oregon in each of their inaugural years: the 1845 Meek Cut-off, the 1846 Barlow Road, and the 1846 Southern Route (see http://oregonoverland.com/).
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Eckard V. Toy, Jr., who holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Oregon, taught at several universities and colleges before retiring to Parkdale, Oregon. His research and writing interests focus on the Ku Klux Klan and the Far Right. |
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