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Teara started out working as a Cultural Resources Technician I and has since worked her way up to Program Manager. She had held the positions of Cultural Resources Technician II, Administrative Assistant, Oral History Coordinator and Program Assistant for the Cultural Resources Protection Program. Teara has been the Program Manager since October 1, 2004. Her main emphasis has been on gathering and managing oral histories and working on NAGPRA issues with staff and Tribal members and leaders. Her goal is twofold: to someday be able to utilize oral history knowledge to protect all cultural resources, “not just the archaeology but the roots, berries, fish, and all that we depend on for survival. We also need to protect and preserve places where our ancestors are buried.” Teara works closely with the Tribal Elders and the CTUIR Language Program and encourages her staff to do so also. She emphasizes the importance of communication with agencies, staff, and the tribal community. She has attended Mt. Hood Community College, Portland State University, and Eastern Oregon University. She enjoys spending time with her family and going to cultural celebrations, swimming, sewing, photography, and watching her son play sports.
Her master's program concentrated on cultural resource management and historic sites archaeology. Her thesis considered public participation in archaeology. She has worked as an archaeologist for the Forest Service in California, Oregon, Nevada, and Idaho and as an interpretive ranger at Grand Canyon National Park. Catherine started work for the tribe in 1998.
Julius began his work with the CRPP as a Cultural Resources Technician I and has worked his way up to Field Director. His responsibilities include all aspects of survey and excavation fieldwork conducted by the Native American survey crew(s) including supervisory responsibilities. He oversees site mapping with laser mapping equipment, the Map Star system compass module and the Global Positioning System units. Julius is a boat operator and conducts project specific and random Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA) monitoring of archaeological sites. He has assisted in numerous arrests of ARPA violations.
Her major areas of technical expertise include: osteo-archaeological studies (animal and human skeletal remains) and lithic artifact analyses. As a staff member of CRPP, her responsibilities include providing technical assistance to the Program Manager and the Principal Investigator on all faunal and human remains encountered in and out of the field. She coordinates educational opportunities and assists in developing and teaching Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA), and Inadvertent Discovery Trainings conducted by the CRPP. Julie is located at the CRPP's Hanford Operations Office in Richland, Washington where she coordinates the Department of Energy (DOE) cultural resources activities.
Her duties include managing a large database of inventories and summaries that have been received through NAGPRA compliance, corresponding and arranging meetings with those entities that have NAGPRA collections, viewing and analyzing NAGPRA collections, providing technical assistance to the CRC and the CRPP on NAGPRA, and seeking funds to continue the consultation and repatriation effort. Her duties have also included the establishment of a vast archive of historic information and archaeological site forms for the program's contract archaeology; management of archaeology and NAGPRA collections received by the program and generated through contracts with various entities; the administration of contracts that concern collections analysis; and field representative. Diana graduated in 1999 with High Honors from Eastern Oregon University with a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies, emphasis in Anthropology and Geology. She has been working for the CTUIR since 1990 and for the CRPP since 1992. Her background with the program includes archaeological monitoring, surveying, excavation, site recordation, and petroglyph/pictograph recordation.
Joseph began working for the Cultural Resources Technician Trainee through the CTUIR’s Summer Youth Program for students and continued working with the CRPP every summer through 1998. In 1998, Joseph graduated from Pendleton Senior High School and began working continuously for the CRPP and has since worked his way up to the position of Cultural Resources Technician I/Assistant Crew Supervisor. His duties include working with Tribal Elders on oral history projects, obtaining supervisory responsibilities, implementing and leading small survey projects which include photography, cultural resources inventory surveys, monitoring, excavations, operating high tech equipment in the field, data collection and note taking. Joseph is also interested in stone tool technology. He makes arrowheads, spears, spear points, bows and arrows. Furthermore, he enjoys hunting and fishing and would one day like to take an animal with self-made bow like his ancestors did.
Carey went on to work for various private archaeological consulting firms around the Northwest before landing at the Cultural Resources Protection Program in 1998. Carey served the Tribes as the Assistant THPO from 2001 to 2004 when she assumed the position of THPO.
Toby has since worked his way up to a Cultural Resources Technician II/Assistant Crew Supervisor. His duties include working with Tribal Elders on oral history projects, supervisory responsibilities, implementing and leading small survey projects, photography, cultural resources inventory surveys, monitoring, excavations, operating high tech equipment in the field, data collection, and note taking. Toby was a member of the 1994 and 1995 Umatilla Salmon Corps, an AmeriCorps program on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. In 1995 he served as Crew Leader and provided a variety of public services such as gathering wood for Tribal Elders, stream restoration, and other activities. Toby has attended Blue Mountain Community College. Toby enjoys drumming, singing, and attending cultural activities.
In 1999, Shari began working in a fuller capacity and currently holds the position of Research Assistant/Cultural Resources Technician I. Her duties include photography, cultural resources inventory surveys, monitoring construction activities including excavations, operating high tech equipment in the field, data collection, note taking, data entry of site forms, and providing various tasks in the CRPP's archive. Shari enjoys observing and recording prehistoric and historic artifacts and contemplating the history behind each one.
This new knowledge set him onto a career track to work in cultural resource management. He attended Oregon State University where he received his Bachelor of Science in Anthropology in 1991. He then worked for the Forest Service in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. He also worked for an archaeological consulting company in Oregon. Shawn started work for the tribe in 1998.
Dara began working seasonally for the CRPP in 1997 and 1998 as a Cultural Resources Technician I conducting cultural resources inventory surveys and monitoring construction activities. In 1998 and 1999, she worked for the CTUIR's Native Plant Nursery providing tasks such as cultivating native plants for stream bank restoration project until the program was dissolved. In 2000, Dara began working for the CRPP again and has since been assigned to work with oral history projects. Dara's duties include working with Tribal Elders, interviewing, transcribing oral history tapes, conducting file and literature searches of the CRPP's archive, research, photography, cultural resources inventory surveys, monitoring, and working on Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) related tasks such as collections inventory at various museums. Dara was also a member of the 1995 and 1996 Umatilla Salmon Corps, an AmeriCorps program on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Her duties included a variety of public tasks such as community projects that included clean up work; getting wood for local Tribal elders; stream bank restoration to help improve the salmon runs; and fencing projects to keep the cattle out of the streams and rivers.
In May 2001, he transferred to the Cultural Resources Protection Program (CRPP) as a Cultural Resources Technician I through the On-The-Job Training program. Arthur's duties include working with Tribal Elders, photography, cultural resources inventory surveys, monitoring, excavations, operating high tech equipment in the field, data collection, and note taking.
In working with the Cultural Resources Protection Program my goal is to enhance and understand the Tribe’s work in the protection and preservation of its cultural history, and to assist co-workers and technical staff in the preservation of those sovereign rights.
Employed as an Archaeologist Assistant for a private archaeological firm in Portland, Oregon from April 2004 to July 2005. Ryan returned to the CRPP in October 2005 (After commercial salmon fishing season). Ryan's job duties include; oral history interviews, cultural resource inventory surveys, construction monitoring, archaeological excavations, photography, operation of high tech field equipment, data collection, note taking and various office tasks. Ryan is an avid angler; he prefers fly fishing for trout but also practices his treaty fishing rights by fishing on the Columbia River, usually from June-October. He also enjoys playing his guitar(s) in his free time.
Leslie returned to school and received her Master of Arts in Anthropology from Portland State University in 2005. She is a Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA). Leslie’s Master’s research focused on the archaeology of the Wapato Valley (Portland Basin). She constructed a highly-accurate predictive model for precontact archaeological site location on the Columbia River floodplain in the Portland area using GIS (geographic information systems). She taught the PSU Archaeology Field School at Fort Vancouver for three years, and did further work for the National Park Service in both archaeology and GIS. She has worked for several private archaeological consulting firms in the Pacific Northwest, and began working for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in 2006.
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