[OR_Archaeology] Cathlapotle report available on request

[John Pouley]

Announcing Cathlapotle and Its Inhabitants, 1792-1860
A Report by Robert Boyd produced for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

In this report, anthropologist Robert Boyd has written the most
comprehensive synthesis to date of known ethnographic and historic
information concerning the “Cathlapotle Reach,” a stretch of the
Columbia
River from Longview to Vancouver. Focusing on one of the two largest
and
best preserved Portland Basin villages, Cathlapotle, located on what is
now
the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Dr. Boyd explores the identity
of
its Native inhabitants from the beginning of Euroamerican contact in
1792
through 1860, by which time most had been removed to reservations. The
report uses extensive excerpts from primary source materials and
illustrative maps and graphics to clarify the cultural and territorial
bases of Native identities in the Cathlapotle Reach.

Dr. Boyd is the author of several books and articles about the native
peoples of the Pacific Northwest, including The Coming of the Spirit
of
Pestilence: introduced infectious diseases and population decline
among
Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874 and Indians, Fire, and the Land in
the
Pacific Northwest. He draws on more than 35 years of anthropological
research and teaching about Pacific Northwest Native American
ethnohistory,
culture contact and change, cultural ecology, and medical
anthropology.

If you would like to receive a free copy, send your name and mailing
address to crt1 at fws.gov, or fax to 503-625-4887, attention Cathlapotle
and
its Inhabitants.