essay
The Puyallup of Washington
Acculturation in seven American Indian tribes • Gloucester, Mass. • Published In 1963 • Pages: 3-38
By: Smith, Marian W. (Marian Wesley).
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- 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
- culture
- Southern Coast Salish
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field Date
- 1935-1936
- Coverage Date
- 1780-1936
- Coverage Place
- Puyallup River, Pierce county, Washington, United States
- Notes
- by Marian W. Smith
- reprinted, 1963 By permission of Appelton-Century-Crofts, Inc.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 36)
- LCSH
- Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation, Washington