Department of Anthropology
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225

Professional Experience

July 1995 - present

July 1989 - June 1995

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Western Washington University

Sept 1992 - June 1993

Visiting Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of British Columbia

Sept 1991 - Dec 1991

Canadian Studies Exchange Fellow
University of Maine

Jan 1987 - June 1989

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Western Washington University

1985 - Present

Affiliated Faculty
Canadian/American Studies Program
Western Washington University

1987 - Present

Affiliated Faculty
Huxley College of Environmental Studies
Western Washington University

Mar 1983 - Dec 1986

Instructor
Department of Anthropology
Western Washington University

Jan 1983 - Aug 1984

Instructor
Director of Student Services
Lummi Community College
(now Northwest Indian College)
2616 Kwina Road
Bellingham, WA 98226

Education

M.A., Western Washington University, Anthropology, 1977

B.A., The Evergreen State College, Social Science/Education, 1973

Selected Publications

"The Lummi Island Reef Nets." The Indian Historian, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1980.

"Tribally Controlled Community Colleges and Curriculum Development." The Indian Educator, Vol. IV, No. 4, 1981.

"Indian Fishing Rights: A Matter of Give and Take." The Journal of Marine Education, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1982.

"Reef Netting for Salmon." Sea Frontiers (The Journal of the International Oceanographic Foundation.) Vol. 29, No. 5, 1983.

"The Introduction of Horses to the Southern Puget Sound Salish." In Western Washington Indian Socio-Economics,. H.C. Taylor and Garland F. Grabert, eds. Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 1984.

"Anthropology for Indians: Teaching at a Tribally-Controlled Community College." The Indian Educator, Vol. VIII, No. 1, 1985.

"Charles Cultee and the Father of American Anthropology." The Journal of the Pacific County Historical Society, Vol. XXI, No.1, 1986.

"Curriculum Development and Tribally Controlled Community Colleges." Northwest Anthropological Research Notes, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1986.

"A Comparison of Native Fishing Rights in British Columbia and Washington State." Proceedings of the Western Association of Sociology and Anthropology, 28th Annual Meeting, Boise State University, Boise, ID, 1987.

"In and Out of the Labor Force: The Lummi Indians and the Development of the Commercial Salmon Fishery of North Puget Sound, 1880 to 1900." Ethnohistory, Vol. 35, No. 2, 1988.

"The Lummi Indians and the Canadian/American Pacific Salmon Treaty." American Indian Quarterly, Vol. XII, No. 4, 1988.

To Fish in Common: The Ethnohistory of Lummi Indian Salmon Fishing. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1989. (Reprinted with new preface and epilogue, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2000.)

Native North Americans: An Ethnohistorical Approach. Daniel L. Boxberger, ed. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 1990. [Second Edition, 1997].

"The Northwest Coast," and "Native North Americans in Contemporary Society." In Native North Americans: An Ethnohistorical Approach.

"Individualism or Tribalism?: The 'Dialectic' of Indian Policy." American Indian Quarterly, Vol. XV, No. 1, 1991.

"Treaty or non-Treaty Status?: The Case of Western Washington Indians." Columbia (The Journal of the Washington State Historical Society), Vol. 5, No. 3, 1991.

"The Germans from Russia and the 1911 Report of the United States Immigration Commission." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1991.

"Lightning Boldts and Sparrow Wings: A Comparison of Native Fishing Rights in British Columbia and Washington State." Native Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1993.

"Creating Chiefdoms: The Puget Sound Case." Ethnohistory, Vol. 41, No. 2, 1994.

"Ethnicity and Labor in the Puget Sound Fishing Industry." Ethnology, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, 1994.

"The Northwest Coast." In Native North American Almanac, Duane Champagne, ed., Los Angeles: Gale Research, Inc., 1994.

"Lummi; Duwamish; Klallam; Sauk-Suiattle." (Four separate articles) In Native America in the 20th Century, Mary B. Davis, ed., Garland Publishing, 1994.

"Fishing." In Encyclopedia of the American Indian, Fred Hoxie, ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996.

"Evolution or History?" Ethnohistory, Vol. 44, No. 1, 1997.

"Pacific Northwest Slavery." In Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, Junius P. Rodriguez, ed., 1997.

"Pacific Northwest Coast." In The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.

"Pacific Northwest." In U*X*L* Encyclopedia of Tribes. Detroit: U*X*L*/Gale Research, 1999

Published Reports

An Archival and Oral History Inventory of Cultural Resources in the Klickitat and White Salmon Wild and Scenic River Areas. U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Forest Service, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, 1993.

San Juan Island National Historical Park: Cultural Affiliation Study. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Pacific Northwest Region, 1994.

An Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of North Cascades National Oark Service Complex. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Pacific Northwest Region, 1996.

The Legal Context of Native American Land and Resource Use in Mount Rainier National Park. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Columbia-Cascades Cluster, 1998.

Cultural Affiliation Study of the Kennewick Human Remains: Review of Traditional Historical and Ethnographic Information. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Washington, D.C., 2000.