North Cascades Ethnography of The North Cascades

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the assistance of several organizations, institutions, and individuals in the preparation of this study. The National Park Service and Mr. James Thomson, Regional Archaeologist, Pacific Northwest Region, made it possible by providing funding through a contract awarded to the Center for Northwest Anthropology, Washington State University. The Service has been singularly understanding in granting extensions in the contract deadline as a consequence of unforeseen interruptions and as the full scope of the project became more apparent. To the Center I express my gratitude for allowing me to participate in the Project and for permitting me a more lengthy research period than originally contemplated. Dr. Kenneth C. Reid, Center Director, and Mr. Robert R. Mierendorf, Staff Archaeologist, who served as Project Co-Principal Investigators, have been very helpful in providing support and encouragement in many ways. The tedious chore of preparing my manuscript for submission has been largely in the hands of Mrs. Lorna Elliott, whose never-failing good nature and expert attention to detail I have come increasingly to appreciate. Washington State University has provided me with office facilities and with the library resources without which much of this report could not have been assembled. Finally, I am most deeply indebted to the early explorers, fur-men, and travelers of northwestern Washington and adjacent Canada who have left us records of their journeys and observations concerning the geography, natural history, and Indian groups of the region; to the historians who have devoted attention to the area; to the anthropologists who through the past century have carried out field research in the region and published their findings and who have analyzed, synthesized, and interpreted their own ethnographic data and those of others; and perhaps most particularly to those caring members of the regional tribal groups who have shared with field ethnographers their knowledge of their old lifeways.