Curriculum Vitae

December 2001

 

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I. Biographical Information

 

Date of Birth:

 

August 3, 1935

 

Military Service:

 

US Army 1954-1962; Honorable Discharge

 

Married:

 

Candace Arroyo de Walker, Six Children

 

 

II. Education

 

1964

 

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Oregon
Dissertation: "Schismatic Factionalism and the Development of Nez Perce Pentecostalism"

 

1962

 

Washington State University, Summer School in Ethnology and Linguistics

 

1961-1962

 

 

Archaeological Excavations on the John Day River, Central Oregon

 

1961

 

University of Oregon, Summer School in Archaeology. John Day River Excavation, Eugene, Oregon

 

1960-1961

 

B.A., Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

 

1958-1959

 

Mexico City College, Mexico, D.F. (University of the Americas) Ethnographic and Linguistic Field Research in the Valley of Mexico

 

1956-1958

 

Eastern Oregon College, LaGrande, Oregon

 

1953-1954

 

Eastern Oregon College, LaGrande, Oregon

 

1951-1953

 

Fork Union Military Academy, Fork Union, Virginia

 

 

III. University Appointments

 

1992-present

 

Professor, Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America / Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

1982

 

Lecturer, Summer Institute on Native American Religion Department of Religious Studies University of Colorado, Boulder

 

1973-1976

 

Associate Dean of the Graduate School, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

1971-1997

 

Research Associate, Laboratory of Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow

 

 

1970-1973

 

Instructor, University of Colorado on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota

 

1969-present

 

Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

1969-1974

 

Research Associate, Population Processes Program - Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

1967-1969

 

Research Collaborator, Washington State University, Pullman and Idaho State University, Pocatello

 

1967-1969

 

Chairman, Associate Professor and Director, Laboratory of Anthropology Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow

 

1965-1967

 

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman

 

1964-1965

 

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC

 

1961-1962

 

Research Assistant (Archaeology), University of Oregon, Eugene

 

 

IV. Areas of Specialization

·         Acculturation and Cultural Change

·         Natural and Cultural Resources

·         Sacred Geography

·         Fisheries

·         Water

·         Applied Anthropology

·         Legal Anthropology

·         Cultural and Environmental Impact Studies

·         Anthropology of Education and Health Research

·         Community Development

·         Demography

·         Ethnographic Reconstruction and Description

·         Ethnology of Northwestern North America -- Plateau, Northwestern Plains, and Northern Great Basin

·         Ethnological Theory and Method

·         Ethnohistory

·         Religion, Folklore, and Language

·         Cultures of the Southwest: Hispanic, Hopi, and Navajo

 

 

V. Honors and Awards

 

2001

 

Acknowledgement by the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee for Successful Efforts to Protect and Preserve the Sacred Sovereignty of the Nez Perce Tribe. Affirmed in U.S. v. Webb and upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

 

 

2000

 

Honorary Award of the "High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology" in honor of being a member of the original steering committee.

 

1995

 

Commendation by Governor Lowry, State of Washington, for Service in the HEDR Project, Hanford, Washington.

 

1995

 

Commendation Letter from SfAA for activities as Program Chair of 1995 Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

 

 

1994

 

The Omer C. Stewart Memorial Award In Recognition of Exemplary Achievement, from the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology.

 

1994

 

Best Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder's Most Wanted: 1994, Boulder's Choice Awards.

 

 

1989-1995

 

Nomination for various teaching awards at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

 

1989

 

Formal Citation for "Outstanding Volunteer Efforts on the Chief Tendoy Cemetery Project" from the Bureau of Land Management, Salmon District, Idaho, January 1989.

 

 

1989

 

Certificate of Award by the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma in Recognition and Appreciation of Assistance in Securing Enactment of the Nebraska Unmarked Burial Sites and Skeletal Remains Protection Act, October 9, 1989, Nebraska, L.B. 340.

 

1989

 

National Award by the Bureau of Land Management "Volunteers for the Public Lands." Given for Outstanding Contributions to the Conservation of Cultural Resources on Public Lands associated with the Tendoy Cemetery and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Idaho.

 

1988-1995

 

Appointment to the Technical Steering Panel (TSP) for the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project (HEDRP), Hanford, Washington.

 

1988

 

Invited Testimony on "Amending the American Indian Religious Freedom Act," Before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C.

 

1988

 

Invited Keynote Address to the Newberry Library Conference on American Indian Religious Freedom, Chicago.

 

1987

 

Invited Keynote Address Presented to the Harvard Workshop on Sacred Geography, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

1986

 

Invited Keynote Address, Northwestern Anthropological Conference "Anthropology and the Law: American Indians and Cultural Resource Management," Moscow, Idaho.

 

1984

 

Nomination for Solon T. Kimball Award in Applied Anthropology.

 

1982

 

Life Membership in the Society for Applied Anthropology. Awarded in 1982 for contributions to the Society and to the field of Applied Anthropology.

 

1982

 

Invited Keynote Address, "Legal and Political History of the Indians of Idaho," Idaho State Legislature, Boise, Idaho.

 

1973-1981

 

Administrative duties associated with being Editor of Human Organization, Treasurer of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Associate Editor of the American Anthropologist, and Associate Dean of the Graduate School.

 

 

1972

 

Invited Keynote Address: "The American Indian in Transition--Past as Prologue," Idaho State University, Pocatello.

 

1970

 

Invited Keynote Address: "The Ethics Controversy in Anthropology," Annual Meeting, Northwestern Anthropological Conference, Corvallis, Oregon.

 

1968

 

Sigma Xi Prize for Best Research Contribution, University of Idaho, Moscow.

 

1967

 

Sigma Xi Prize for Best Research Contribution, University of Idaho, Moscow.

 

1965-1996

 

Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology.

 

1965

 

Fellow, American Anthropological Association.

 

1962

 

Cressman Prize for Best Essay in Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene.

 

1961-1964

 

NDEA Fellow, University of Oregon, Eugene.

 

1961

 

NSF Research Fellow (Archaeology), Summer, University of Oregon, Eugene.

 

1961

 

B.A. with Honors, University of Oregon, Eugene.

 

 

VI. Editorial Appointments

 

 

1995-Fall, 2004

 

Editor, High Plains Applied Anthropologist, High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology.

 

1994-1998

Editorial Board Member, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy.

 

 

1973-1974

Associate Editor, American Anthropologist, American Anthropological Association.

 

 

1971-1998

Editor, Handbook of North American Indians, Plateau Volume. Smithsonian Institution.

 

 

1970-1976

Editor, Human Organization, Society for Applied Anthropology.

 

 

1966-present

Founder and Co-Editor, with Roderick Sprague, Northwest Anthropological Research Notes (Journal of Northwest Anthropology), Moscow, University of Idaho.

 

 

VII. Editorial Consultation

 

1967-present

Continuing consultation with the University of Idaho Press, University of Oklahoma Press, and various commercial presses as well as the Canadian Encyclopedia, the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian Institution, and Readers Digest in developing and producing authoritative works on the North American Indian topics, e.g., America's Fascinating Indian Heritage, and Handbook of North American Indians.

 

 

VIII. Memberships and Offices  in Professional Societies

 

1994-1995

 

Program Chair, Society for Applied Anthropology, Albuquerque

 

1980-Present

 

High Plains, Society for Applied Anthropology

 

1979-1980

 

Chair of Organizing Committee, High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology

 

1976-1979

 

Treasurer, Society for Applied Anthropology

 

1970-1979

 

Executive Committee, Society of Applied Anthropology

 

1970-Present

 

Northwest Anthropological Conference

 

1969-Present

 

American Indian Development, Academic Advisor 1980-1982

 

 

1967-1985

 

American Academy of Political and Social Sciences

 

1965-Present

 

Society for Applied Anthropology

 

1966-Present

 

American Anthropological Association

 

 

1966-1985

 

American Association for the Advancement of Science

 

1965-1985

 

Sigma Xi

 

 

IX. Research Groups and Sponsoring Agencies

 

Tribes and Tribal Groups

 

Cheyenne-Araphao

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

Pine Ridge Sioux

Rosebud Sioux Tribe

Assiniboine-Sioux, Ft. Peck

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

Shoshone--Arapaho, Wind River

Shoshone-Bannock, Ft. Hall

Shoshone-Bannock, Lemhi

Shoshone-Paiute, Duck Valley Indian Reservation

Shoshone-Paiute, Ft. McDermitt

Paiute-Shoshone, Fallon

Great Lakes Tribes

Northern Paiute-Burns

Hopi

Blackfeet

Coeur d’Alene

Kalispel/Pend d’Oreille

Confederated Colville Tribes

Spokane

Navajo

Nez Perce

Plateau: Salishan and Sahaptian Tribes

Washoe

Yakama

Flathead (Bitterroot Salish)

 

Non-Tribal Groups and Agencies

 

Bureau of Land Management

HEDR Project. (DOE and CDC)

Pueblo Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Native American Church of North America

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Bureau of Reclamation

Department of Justice

Native American  Rights Fund

National Endowment for the Humanities

Housing and Urban Development

Science Applications International Corporation

Indian Legal Services Organizations in the following states:

 

 

California, Colorado, Idaho, South Dakota, Alabama, Utah, Oregon, Washington

 

 

Board of Missions, United Presbyterian Church

 

 

 

in the USA

 

Northwest Power Planning Council

National Science Foundation

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Indian Health Service

Department of Defense-Air Combat Command

 

 

 

X. Current Research Projects

2001- present       Yakama Tribe.  A Critical Examination of the Department of the Interior’s Decision to Repatriate the Kennewick Human Remains.

2001-present        Compilation and Annotation of Migration and Other Anthropological Studies Using American Indian Genetic Materials.  For the International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management.

2001-present        Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan. Idaho Army National Guard and Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation.

2001-present        Rio Tinto Cultural Resource Assessment for Mining Impacts on Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation.

2001-present        Pauite-Shoshone. Prehistory and Oral Tradition in the Great Basin: The Spirit Cave Repatriation.

2001-present        Fallon Paiute Tribe.  A Critical Evaluation of the Bureau of Land Management’s Evidence for Determination of Cultural Affiliation of Ancient Human Remains from Spirit Cave, Nevada, by Barker, Ellis, and Damadio (July 26, 2000).

2001                       Great Lakes Tribes. Milwaukee Indian Community School. Expert Testimony for Classification as a Religious Institution. Indian Community School of Milwaukee, Inc., and Carmen Bond, and Patricia Petzold-Heim. Case No. 30-CA-14687 and Case No. 30-CA-14778.

2000-present        BLM-Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. Brownlee-Paddock Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Research.

2000-present        NAGPRA in Southern Idaho: An Ethnographic Assessment of BLM Shoshone-Paiute Archaeological Collections. Ethnographic Research Conducted during 1980-1999.

2000-present        Washoe.  A Natural Resource Damage Assessment – Leviathan Mine Impacts.

2000-present        Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Cultural Assessment of CRST uses of Riparian Habitats and Resources: A Feasibility Determination Report for Assessment of Mining Impacts on the Cheyenne River and its Resources.

2000-present        Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.  A Preliminary Ethnographic Impact Assessment of the Armstrong County Gunnery Range and its Impacts on the Cheyenne River Tribe.

2000-present        Navajo.  Applied Anthropology and Navajo Education: The Leupp Case Study.

2000-present        Critical Assessment of the Use of mtDNA and Y-Chromosome Testing for Determining American

Indian Cultural Affiliation.

 

 

XI. Publications (*Peer Reviewed)

 

*2000

 

 

 

Other Perspectives on the Kennewick Man Controversy: A Few Observations. In American Anthropologist December, 2000. With Peter N. Jones.

 

*2000

 

Anthropology, Tribes, and The Transformation of American Anthropology: A Few Observations. In High Plains Applied Anthropologist Vol.20, No.1, Spring, 2000. With Peter N. Jones.

 

*2000

 

Implementing the Multicultural Curriculum. In Northwest Anthropological Research Notes Vol. 32, No. 2. With Peter N. Jones.

 

*1999

 

"A Revisionist View of Julian Steward from the Northern Great Basin." In Julian Steward and the Great Basin: The Making of an Anthropologist. Clemmer, Richard et al. Salt Lake, University of Utah Press.

 

*1998

 

Introduction. Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 12, Plateau. Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office.

 

 

*1998

 

History Until 1846. Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 12, Plateau. Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office. With Roderick Sprague.

 

*1998

 

Nez Perce. Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 12, Plateau. Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office.

 

 

*1998

 

The Native American Church, by Deward E. Walker, Jr. In “Religious Movements,” by Deward E. Walker, Jr. and Helen H. Schuster. In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 12, Plateau. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. 1998.

 

 

*1998

 

Nez Perce Coyote Tales. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press.

 

*1996

 

"The Yakama System of Trade and Exchange." Northwest Anthropological Research Notes.

 

*1995

 

Transport Factors in Fish: A Review and Evaluation of HEDR Project Columbia River Pathway Modeling and Dose Calculation Procedures. Report prepared for the Technical Steering Panel of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project, December 1995.

 

*1995

 

"A Review Essay of Post-Modernism and Anthropology by Karin Geuijen, Diederick Raven, and Jan de Wolf." With Daniel N. Mathews. Contemporary Philosophy (17)3:32-36.

 

*1994

 

Blood of the Monster: The Nez Perce Coyote Cycle. Worland, WY, High Plains Publishing Company, Inc. 244 pp. approx. With Daniel N. Mathews.

 

1994

 

Introduction to the 1994 edition of Half-Sun on the Columbia by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press.

 

*1994

 

"Non-Verbal Communication in the Classroom: Anglo Teachers and Native American Students." High Plains Applied Anthropologist. (14)1: 51-70. With Linda C. Gorsuch.

 

 

*1994

 

"Anthropologists and Native Americans." In Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia. New York, Garland Publishing.

 

*1994

 

"Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation." In Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia. New York, Garland Publishing.

 

*1994

 

"Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation." In Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia. New York, Garland Publishing.

 

*1994

 

"Nez Perce." In Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia. New York, Garland Publishing.

 

*1994

 

"Coeur d'Alene." In Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia. New York, Garland Publishing.

 

*1994

 

"Kutenai at Bonners Ferry." In Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia. New York, Garland Publishing.

 

*1993

 

"The Shoshone-Bannock: An Anthropological Reassessment." Northwest Anthropological Research Notes. Vol. 27(2).

 

*1993

 

"Lemhi Shoshone-Bannock Reliance on Anadromous and Other Fish Resources." Northwest Anthropological Research Notes 27(2).

 

*1992

 

"Productivity of Tribal Dipnet Fishermen at Celilo Falls: Analysis of the Joe Pinkham Fish Buying Records." Northwest Anthropological Research Notes. Volume