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Journal Anthropology of Northwest Fall 2020 Volume 54 J ournal Number 2 O f N orthwest A nthropology “No One Asked for an Ethnography.” Reflections on Community-based Anthropology in Coast Salish Country N Thomas W Murphy 145 Image Rock: Rediscovering a Petroglyph in the High Cascades Volume 54 Volume David A. Kaiser and Julia Cleary 165 Coast Salish Social Complexity, Community Ties, and Resistance: Using Mortuary Analysis to Identify Changes in Coast Salish Society Before, During, and After the Early Number 2 Number Colonial Period Alexandra M. Peck 175 Confirmation Bias: Commentary on the 2020 JONA Article, “Salish Sea Islands Archaeology and Precontact History” Adam N. Rorabaugh, Kate Shantry, and James W. Brown 203 Historical Archaeology of Fort Boise’s Surgeon’s Quarters Porch Evidences the Behavior of Children Nathan J. May 240 Abstracts from the 72nd Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Kennewick, Washington, 20–23 March 2019 264 Journal of Northwest Anthropology List of Reviewers 2018–2019 278 Fall 2020 Fall W Journal of Northwest Anthropology Volume 54, Number 2 Fall 2020 CONTENTS Volume 54, Number 1 Volume 54, Number 2 1 “La Gente de Washington es la Más 145 “No One Asked for an Ethnography.” Tranquila” (People from Washington are Reflections on Community-based the Most Laid-Back): An Ethnographic Anthropology in Coast Salish Country Perspective on Honduran and Salvadoran Thomas W Murphy Migration to the Pacific Northwest Jordan Levy and Sandra Estrada 165 Image Rock: Rediscovering a Petroglyph in the High Cascades 22 Salish Sea Islands Archaeology and David A. Kaiser and Julia Cleary Precontact History Richard M. Hutchings and Scott Williams 175 Coast Salish Social Complexity, Community Ties, and Resistance: Using Mortuary Analysis 62 A Comment on Wessen’s “Makahs, to Identify Changes in Coast Salish Society Quileutes, and the Precontact History Before, During, and After the Early Colonial of the Northwestern Olympic Peninsula, Period Washington,” with a Reply from Gary C. Alexandra M. Peck Wessen 62 A Comment on Gary C. Wessen’s 203 Confirmation Bias: Commentary on the 2020 “Makahs, Quileutes, and the JONA Article, “Salish Sea Islands Archaeology Precontact History of the and Precontact History” Northwestern Olympic Peninsula, Adam N. Rorabaugh, Kate Shantry, and James W. Washington” Brown Jay Powell 79 Reply to Powell 240 Historical Archaeology of Fort Boise’s Gary C. Wessen Surgeon’s Quarters Porch Evidences the Behavior of Children 97 “Notes Regarding my Adventures in Nathan J. May Anthropology and with Anthropologists” by John Swanton with an Introduction by 264 Abstracts from the 72nd Annual Northwest Jay Miller Anthropological Conference, Kennewick, 97 Introduction Washington, 20–23 March 2019 Jay Miller 98 Notes Regarding my Adventures 278 Journal of Northwest Anthropology List of in Anthropology and with Reviewers 2018–2019 Anthropologists John Swanton 279 Erratum for Salish Sea Islands Archaeology and Precontact History 126 “The Haida” by Adolf Bastian with an Introduction by Richard L. Bland 126 Introduction Richard L. Bland 127 The Haida Adolf Bastian, Translated by Richard L. Bland i 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 D. 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Questions of reference and style can be answered by referring to the style guide found on the website or to Journal of Northwest Anthropology, 47(1):109–118. Other problems of style can be normally solved through reference to The Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press. All illustrative materials (drawings, maps, diagrams, charts, and plates) will be designated “Figures” in a single, numbered series and will not exceed 6 x 9 inches. All tabular material will be part of a separately numbered series of “Tables.” © by Northwest Anthropology LLC, 2020 ii Journal of Northwest Anthropology “No One Asked for an Ethnography.” Reflections on Community- based Anthropology in Coast Salish Country Thomas W Murphy Edmonds College Abstract A question posed by a student after a guest lecture about a community-based environmental anthropology field school Correspondence provoked reflection on community needs in Coast Salish Country. [email protected] The student expressed an interest in an ethnographic account of field work that had been responsive to community requests. The challenge is that in over two decades of consultations and collaborations, no one from Coast Salish communities had asked for an ethnography. Representatives from United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, Tulalip, Stillaguamish, Snoqualmie, Samish, Duwamish, and Snohomish Tribes expressed different needs. They asked community college partners to remember where they came from, support Native American students, develop relations with other than human people, help create culturally relevant jobs, “feed the sea,” assist in bringing salmon back, witness, sing, dance, and ultimately to “pass the mic.” Keywords Ethnography, Coast Salish, Tulalip, Stillaguamish, Snoqualmie, Samish, Duwamish, Snohomish Introduction munity college students. I had been trained to write ethnographies, but also to be attentive to A student raised her hand, initially offering community needs. My response surprised me praise for a just-completed guest lecture in an almost as much as it startled her. “No one asked anthropology course at Central Washington for an ethnography,” I replied. University in October of 2013. Her question The answer, given on the spot, was true, followed her compliments. “Have you written at least as far as it concerned the Coast Salish an ethnography?” An excellent inquiry, posed for a sociocultural anthropologist. The question nations with whom the Learn and Serve Envi- provoked a pause and contemplation on how ronmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) School to effectively respond to that thoughtful query. at Edmonds College and its predecessors had The presentation had just outlined a com- partnered for a couple of decades. Even now, munity-based approach to an environmental seven years later, only government agencies anthropology field school, in which community have requested ethnographic assessments of partners (tribes, government agencies, and local, non-Native communities. In collaborative non-profit organizations) identified the needs development of student-centered service-learning addressed through hands-on service-learning and community-based research projects, part- and undergraduate research projects for com- ners at United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, 145 Journal of Northwest Anthropology T. W MURPHY Tulalip, Stillaguamish, Snoqualmie, Samish, to Kansas and then to Idaho to settle with Duwamish, and Snohomish Tribes have never Mormons (Murphy 2018; Murphy et al. 2020). requested ethnographies. I was born in Los Angeles, California but grew If Coast Salish partners have not asked for up in southern Idaho. Interest in stories my ethnography, then what have they requested? grandmother shared about our Native ancestors They have asked community college represen- inspired the pursuit of a Bachelor’s degree in tatives to remember where they come from; anthropology at the University of Iowa, completed support Native American students; develop in 1993. Graduate school at the University of relations with other than human people; Washington (UW) in 1994 brought me to Coast help create culturally relevant jobs; “feed the Salish Country where I earned a Master’s and sea;” bring salmon back; witness, sing, and Doctorate in sociocultural anthropology in dance;