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The Puyallup of Washington
Acculturation in seven American Indian tribes • Gloucester, Mass. • Published In 1963 • Pages: 3-38
By: Smith, Marian W. (Marian Wesley).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Beginning with a reconstruction of pre-contact life, this document discusses the subsequent processes of acculturation of the Puyallup people. It shows the substantial benefits brought to them by new economic opportunities. The most important was the ability to work for wages side-by-side with non-Indian settlers. Due to a rapid increase in the settler population, especially following the arrival of the transcontinental rail system and the discovery of gold, the Puyallup also benefitted from increased land values. Such forces accelerated acceptance of the dominant settler culture. This study also shows how the increase in available cash and leisure time among this previously impoverished, seasonally mobile people led to an increased dependence on alcohol and drugs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Annual cycle
- Collecting
- Fishing
- Hunting and trapping
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Administrative agencies
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Labor supply and employment
- Real property
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Buying and selling
- Medium of exchange
- Income and demand
- Alcoholism and drug addiction
- Education system
- Historical reconstruction
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Southern Coast Salish
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1935-1936
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1780-1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Puyallup River, Pierce county, Washington, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Marian W. Smith
- reprinted, 1963 By permission of Appelton-Century-Crofts, Inc.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 36)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation, Washington