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Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - Arts & Events
Anthropology Professor Presents 'The Big River: Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land' at WSU Vancouver
CONTACT:
- Sheri Byrd, Office of Marketing and Communications, 360/546-9602, byrds@vancouver.wsu.edu
- Mary Wheeler, Center for Columbia River History, 503/734-7772, info@ccrh.org
Eugene Hunn examines their ethnobiology and cultural ecology in his book, "Nch'I-Wána, the Big River: Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land," and in a lecture on the same topic, from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m., Nov. 7, in the Washington State University Vancouver Multimedia Classroom building, room 22.
Hunn is an ethnobiologist and professor of anthropology at University of Washington. He has also been involved in contract research for the U.S. National Park Service on subsistence issues in Alaska, and has testified in court regarding Pacific Northwest Native American resource and land rights.
The lecture is sponsored by the River Cities Anthropological Society and College of Liberal Arts at WSU Vancouver, and the Center for Columbia River History. Visit http://www.ccrh.org for more information.
WSU Vancouver offers 14 Bachelor's degrees, 9 Master's degrees and 1 Doctorate degree and more than 35 fields of study. The campus is located at 14204 N.E. Salmon Creek Ave., east of the 134th Street exit from either I-5 or I-205. Visit us on the Web at http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu.
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