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Nariyo Kono was awarded a grant by the School of Oriental and Asian
Studies in London for her proposal on "Natural Discourse of the Warm
Springs Last Speakers of Kiksht." She received another grant from the
Jacobs Research Fund for her work on "Documenting Conversational
Kiksht from the Perspective of Language Revitalization."
Bill Lang co-authored, with Roberta Conner of the Umatilla Tribe, a
chapter in the new Umatilla Indian Reservation tribal history, As Days
Go By: Our History, Our Land, and Our People, the Cayuse, Umatilla, and
Walla Walla (Pendleton & Portland: Tamastslikt Cultural Institute &
Oregon Historical Society, 2006).
Tom Thornton published a chapter on Alaska Native Corporations
("Alaska Native Corporations and Subsistence: Paradoxical Forces in
the Making of Sustainable Communities) in a book titled Sustainability
and Communities of Place (Carl Maida, editor) for Berghahn Books,
2006. His book, Being and Place Among the Tlingit, is due out from
the University of Washington Press in Fall 2007.
Katy Barber was appointed director of the Center for Columbia River
History in Fall 2006. CCRH is a consortium that includes PSU,
Washington State University Vancouver and the Washington State
Historical Society. In March 2007, CCRH is hosting a two-day
conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Celilo Falls, an
important Native fishing site on the mid-Columbia River that was
drowned by the reservoir of The Dalles Dam. For more information, see
ccrh.org.
Ann Fulton published "The Restoration of a Chief called Multnomah" in
the American Indian Quarterly. She also offered a presentation
entitled, "The Feather Religion" with Wilson Wewa, Jr. at the 2007
Western History Association.
Tim Garrison published an essay entitled, "The Cherokee Cases," in
Melvin Urofsky's book, The Public Response to Controversial Supreme
Court Cases for Congressional Quarterly Press. He has an article on
"The Southeast and Florida" coming out in the fall in Treaties with
American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty.
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