ISSN 1538-2834 JOURNAL OF NORTHWEST ANTHROPOLOGY Making the List: Mount St. Helens as a Traditional Cultural Property, a Case Study in Tribal/Government Cooperation Richard H. McClure and Nathaniel D. Reynolds ...................................................... 117 Metal and Prestige in the Greater Lower Columbia River Region, Northwestern North America H. Kory Cooper, Kenneth M. Ames, Loren G. Davis ............................................... 143 Archaeological Feature Preservation in Active Fluvial Environments: An Experimental Case Study from the Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington State J. Tait Elder, Patrick Reed, Alexander E. Stevenson, and M. Shane Sparks ............. 167 Seals and Sea Lions in the Columbia River: An Evaluation and Summary of Research Deward E. Walker, Jr. ................................................................................................ 179 The 67th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference Abstracts ............................ 219 Journal of Northwest Anthropology List of Reviewers, 2012–2015 ........................... 246 Fall 2015 Vol. 49, No. 2 Journal of Northwest Anthropology Volume 49, Number 2 Fall 2015 Richland, WA JOURNAL OF NORTHWEST ANTHROPOLOGY FORMERLY NORTHWEST ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH NOTES EDITORS Darby C. Stapp Deward E. Walker, Jr. Richland, WA University of Colorado ASSOCIATE EDITORS C. Melvin Aikens (University of Oregon), Haruo Aoki (University of California), Virginia Beavert (Yakama Nation), Don E. Dumond (University of Oregon), Don D. Fowler (University of Nevada), Raymond D. Fogelson (University of Chicago), Rodney Frey (University of Idaho), Ronald Halfmoon (Lapwai), Tom F.S. McFeat (University of Toronto), and Jay Miller (Lushootseed Research) Julia G. 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Additional reprints may be produced by the author; however, they must be exact duplicates of the original and are not to be sold for profit. © by Northwest Anthropology LLC, 2015 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences–Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984 JOURNAL OF NORTHWEST ANTHROPOLOGY VOLUME 49 DARBY C. STAPP AND DEWARD E. WALKER, JR. EDITORS Number 1 Spring 2015 Experiences in the University of Washington Anthropology Department, 1955–1991 Simon Ottenberg ........................................................................................................................ 1 The Undervalued Black Katy Chitons (Katharina Tunicata) as a Shellfish Resource on the Northwest Coast of North America Dale R. Croes ............................................................................................................................. 13 Incised Stones from Idaho Jan Snedden Kee and Mark G. Plew ......................................................................................... 27 A Partial Stratigraphy of the Snakelum Point Site, 45-IS-13, Island County, Washington, and Comment on the Sampling of Shell Midden Sites Using Small Excavation Units Lance K. Wollwage, Guy L. Tasa, and Stephenie Kramer ....................................................... 43 Big Dog/Little Horse—Ethnohistorical and Linguistic Evidence for the Changing Role of Dogs on the Middle and Lower Columbia in the Nineteenth Century Cheryl A. Mack .......................................................................................................................... 61 Smallpox, Aleuts, and Kayaks: A Translation of Eduard Blashke’s Article on his Trip through the Aleutian Islands in 1838 Richard L. Bland ........................................................................................................................ 71 The 66th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Portland, Oregon, 27–30 March 2013 ...................................................................................................... 87 Number 2 Fall 2015 Making the List: Mount St. Helens as a Traditional Cultural Property, a Case Study in Tribal/Government Cooperation Richard H. McClure and Nathaniel D. Reynolds ...................................................................... 117 Metal and Prestige in the Greater Lower Columbia River Region, Northwestern North America H. Kory Cooper, Kenneth M. Ames, Loren G. Davis ............................................................... 143 Archaeological Feature Preservation in Active Fluvial Environments: An Experimental Case Study from the Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington State J. Tait Elder, Patrick Reed, Alexander E. Stevenson, and M. Shane Sparks ............................. 167 Seals and Sea Lions in the Columbia River: An Evaluation and Summary of Research Deward E. Walker Jr. ................................................................................................................ 179 The 67th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference Abstracts ....................................... 219 Journal of Northwest Anthropology List of Reviewers, 2012–2015 ........................................ 246 JOURNAL OF NORTHWEST ANTHROPOLOGY VOLUME 49 Fall 2015 NUMBER 2 MAKING THE LIST: MOUNT ST. HELENS AS A TRADITIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTY, A CASE STUDY IN TRIBAL/GOVERNMENT COOPERATION Richard H. McClure and Nathaniel D. Reynolds ABSTRACT In 2013, Mount St. Helens was listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its significance as a Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. The mountain, known as Lawetlat’la by the Tribal groups, qualified for listing in the National Register as a landscape feature central to their oral traditions, geography, and cultural identity. The area designated as a TCP encompasses 12,501 acres of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest of southwestern Washington State. The nomination process took several years, and was a collaborative effort between the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and Cowlitz Indian Tribe. TCP nominations and listings are infrequent; of more than 80,000 properties on the National Register of Historic Places as of 2014, Lawetlat’la is only the 23rd TCP listed nation-wide. We present this case study as an example of how a cooperative relationship between federal/tribal partners was fundamental to the nomination process, and will remain important for future management of this Northwest landmark. Introduction Mount St. Helens is unquestionably the best-known volcano in North America, recognized especially for the catastrophic eruption of 18 May 1980, which took the lives of 57 people, caused extensive destruction, and transformed the surrounding forested landscape into a desolate moonscape (Fig. 1). The eruption was extensively covered by media and studied by scientists. The mountain is known to the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation as Lawetlat’la (from lawilat (v.), “emitting smoke,” and –ɬa, a personifier), a Sahaptin name which translates in English to “smoker” (Kinkade 2004; Beavert and Hargus 2009). A central feature of the physical and cultural landscape