Native Americans and the Pacific Northwest Environment

Project ID: J9088020012

Federal Agency: National Park Service

Partner Institution: University of Washington

Fiscal Year: 2002

Initial Funding: $30,000

Total Funding: $30,000

Project Type: Research

Project Disciplines: Cultural

National Park: Pacific West Region Washington

Principal Investigator: Brubaker, Linda

Agreement Technical Representative: Thomson, Jim

Abstract: An interdisciplinary study of the ways Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest managed their environment through agricultural and other practices in the national parks of the region prior to European contact.

Deliverables:

• Report on Dates of Prehistoric Occupation at the Cedar Rock Preserve Shaw Island, Washington, and the Willows site San Juan Island, Washington (Final Report)