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CONTRIBUTORS
GEORGE W. AGUILAR, SR., is a Kiksht Chinookan and a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs in north-central Oregon. His book, When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation (Oregon Historical Society Press, 2005), received an Oregon Book Award in 2006.
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CAIN ALLEN has been researching the historical ecology of the Lower Columbia River region since earning his master's degree in history from Portland State University in 2000. He is the Neighborhood Trees Specialist at Friends of Trees, a Portland-based nonprofit organization, and a former researcher at the Oregon Historical Society.
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KATRINE BARBER is an assistant professor of history at Portland State University and director of the Center for Columbia River History. Her book, Death of Celilo Falls (University of Washington Press, 2005) examines the economic, environmental, and cultural changes brought about by the construction of The Dalles Dam to both Celilo Village and The Dalles.
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VIRGINIA L. BUTLER is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Portland State University. She examined the fish remains from the 1950s archaeological excavation of The Dalles "Roadcut" site by the University of Oregon for her dissertation. Most of her work examines the relationship between people and animals, especially fish, through study of archaeo-fish remains and shows ways ancient animal records contribute to conservation biology.
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CAROL CRAIG was Public Information Manager for the Yakama Nation Fish and Wildlife Resource Management Program in Toppenish, Washington, from 1995 to 2007. She has done public education work in schools throughout the Pacific Northwest from kindergarten through college-level classes and has spoken regionally and nationally on tribal treaty rights.
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ELSIE DAVID is from the Kahmiltpah, Pawanpat, and Wyam Bands of the Yakama Nation. She has been employed as an administrative assistant with Washington State University Extension in Klickitat County, Washington, for five years. She spends her time as a wife, mother, sister to seven siblings, and aunty to twenty nieces and nephews, and is currently taking a break from her pursuit of a bachelor's degree.
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ED EDMO is of Shoshone-Bannock, Yakama, Nez Perce, and French descent, and is widely known as a poet, performer, traditional storyteller, and lecturer on Northwest tribal culture. Edmo is an award-winning playwright and has been a consultant to the Smithsonian on Native American culture and folklore.
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ANDREW H. FISHER is an assistant professor of history at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is the author of several articles about mid-Columbia Indian history, and his first book, Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity, is forthcoming from the University of Washington Press.
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DIANA FREDLUND is a public affairs specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Portland. She has worked with the U.S. Army in Germany, South Korea, and in the United States.She is the editor for the Corps' Portland District monthly publication, The Corps'pondent.
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PAT COURTNEY GOLD is enrolled in the Wasco Nation, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon, where she was born and raised. After graduating from Whitman College with a degree in mathematics, she worked teaching mathematics and working in research until 1991, when she turned to a career in fiber arts. Her baskets are in museum collections nationally and internationally. In 2007, she was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Award.
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ALPHONSE F. HALFMOON attended St. Joseph's Academy in Pendleton, Oregon, and Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon. He served in the U.S. Army from 1940 until 1945 and worked in printing, logging, construction, agriculture, and maintenance. Halfmoon was vice chair of the Board of Trustees of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation from 1991 to 1999 and is now retired.
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EUGENE S. HUNN is Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, Seattle. He received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973, and his primary research interests are ethnobiology, ethnoecology, and cognitive anthropology. His next book is In a Land Called 'Tiicham': A Sahaptian Language Place Names and Ethnogeographic Atlas of the Contemporary and Ceded Homelands of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, with Thomas Morning Owl, Modesta Minthorn, and Jennifer Karson (Tamastslikt Cultural Institute and Ecotrust, forthcoming).
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JOHNNY JACKSON is a Columbia River Indian chief of the Cascade Band of the Yakama, who have struggled to maintain their connections with the Columbia River and to preserve their sacred places. Jackson has been a witness, victim, and dissenter to the changes wrought by non-Indians on the mid–Columbia River and its surroundings.
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WILLIAM L. LANG is Professor of History at Portland State University and author or editor of six books on Pacific Northwest and Western American history, including Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River, and Two Centuries of Lewis and Clark: Reflections on the Corps of Discovery. He teaches environmental, regional, and public history courses at PSU and lectures widely on Columbia River Basin history.
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ALLEN V. PINKHAM, SR., is a Nez Perce tribal historian and gifted storyteller who counts Chief Joseph among his ancestors. Pinkham has lectured at public forums and symposiums across the United States, and in Canada, France, and Japan. Along with Dan Landeen, Pinkham co-authored Salmon and His People: Fish and Fishing in Nez Perce Culture (Confluence Press, 1999).
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CHARLES F. SAMS III is Cocopah, Cayuse, and Sioux. He grew up on the Umatilla Indian Reservation and is the national director for the Tribal & Native Lands Program of the Trust for Public Land and was formerly the executive director of both the Columbia Slough Watershed Council and the Earth Conservation Corps / Salmon Corps.
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WILBUR SLOCKISH, JR., is a member of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and a Columbia River Indian Chief of the Klickitat. He fished at Celilo Falls, has worked on issues related to the Hanford Nuclear Power Plant, was part of the Bi-State Water Quality Commission for the Lower Columbia for three years, and was appointed as a member of the Hanford Health Effect Subcommittee in 1997.
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CHARLES WILKINSON, who served on the law faculty at the University of Oregon from 1975 through 1987, is now Distinguished University Professor and the Moses Lasky Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. He is the author of thirteen books, including most recently Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations (W.W. Norton, 2005).
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WILLIAM F. WILLINGHAM served as a historian for the Portland District and North Pacific Division of the Army Corps of Engineers from 1981 to 1996, where his work included cultural resources management responsibilities. He has published several histories of Corps districts, and his most recent book, Starting Over: Community Building on the Eastern Oregon Frontier, was published by the Oregon Historical Society Press in 2005. Currently, he is a consulting historian based in Portland.
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| ELIZABETH WOODY is a poet, an artist, and Director of the Indigenous Leadership Program at Ecotrust. She is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. Woody has won numerous awards for her writing, including an American Book Award in 1990 for Hand into Stone. |
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