Verne Frederick Ray, (1905 – September 28, 2003) was anthropology professor at the University of Washington, with a B.A. and M.A. in anthropology from Washington and a Ph.D. (in 1937) from Yale. Ray was one of the first

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s at UW, was head of the Department of Anthropology and associate dean of the graduate school. He is known best for assisting Northwest tribes with tribal land-claim settlements and is viewed as pioneer in the field of ethnohistory. The

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tribe, which he helped gain federal recognition, made him an honorary member in 2000."OBITUARIES - Verne F. Ray (1905-2003)" by William R Seaburg ''American anthropologist''. 107, no. 1, (2005): 180 Some of his papers are held at Gonzaga University. He was married to fellow anthropologist and author

Dorothy Jean Ray Dorothy Jean Ray (October 10, 1919 – December 12, 2007) was an author and anthropologist best known for her study of Native Alaskan art and culture. In addition to a number of published books, she has had articles and papers published in '' Ala ...

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He is the author or editor of 52 books dealing with the anthropology of the American Indians of the Northwest.Worldcat
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in 1946 led to the publication of a number of important articles on the tribes, including the following: *Ray, Verne F. "The Columbia Confederacy: A League of Central Plateau Tribes." In Stanley Diamond, editor, ''Culture in History: Essays in Honor of

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''. Columbia University Press: New York, 1960, pp. 771–789. *Ray, Verne F. "Cultural Relations in the Plateau of Northwestern America." Publications of the Frederick Webb Hodge Anniversary Publication Fund, Vol. III. Los Angeles, 1939. *Ray, Verne F. "Ethnohistorical Notes on the Columbia, Chelan, Entiat, and Wenatchee Tribes," Interior Salish and Eastern Washington Indians IV. Garland Publishing Inc.: New York, 1974. *Ray, Verne F. "Native Village and Groupings of the Columbia Basin," '' Pacific Northwest Quarterly''. Vol. 27 No. 2, April, 1936. *Ray, Verne F., The Sanpoil and Nespelem: Salishan Peoples of Northeastern Washington (New Haven, Human Relations Area Files, 1954) riginally published as Vol. V, University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, 1933

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