<br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Fort
Vancouver National Historic Site</span>
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RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">July 1</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";">9</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">, 2010</span></p>
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Contact:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Douglas C.
Wilson 360.921.5241 or <a href="mailto:doug_wilson@nps.gov" target="_blank">doug_wilson@nps.gov</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Kimm
Fox-Middleton 360.816.6243 or <a href="mailto:Kimm_Fox-Middleton@nps.gov" target="_blank">Kimm_Fox-Middleton@nps.gov</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">ARCHAEOLOGISTS
DISCOVER NEW HOUSE AND LANDSCAPE AT COLONIAL SITE IN VANCOUVER,
WASHINGTON</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">VANCOUVER,
WA – National Park Service and University archaeologists have</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">discovered one of the homes of
the multicultural village associated with</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Fort</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Vancouver.<span> </span>The Village was home for 600 to 1000 Hudson’s
Bay</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Company</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">(HBC) employees, their families,
and visiting traders and travelers during</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">the fur trade period.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">“Explorations
in this house and its surrounding landscape will shed new</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">light on the lives of the diverse
population that served this colonial</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">capital of the Pacific Northwest in the 1830s
and 1840s,” said Doug Wilson,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">National Park Service Archaeologist and Faculty
Member of the Department of</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";">A</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">nthropology at Portland State University.<span> </span>Wilson, who is directing the</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">field school that is excavating
the site, identified tiny glass trade</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">beads, buttons, musket balls, bottle
glass, and colorful Spode</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">transferprint ceramics as evidence of the
house and its immediate</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">surroundings.<span> </span>“The people
living in the village, in contrast to the</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">“gentlemen” and their families
inside the fort, left no written records.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">This excavation is a way to
recover the history of this incredible</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">community, which included people
of many ancestries: American Indians from</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">many tribes, Native Hawaiians,
French Canadians, Europeans, Americans, and</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">those of multiethnic origin – the
Métis.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">The Public
Archaeology field school is a partnership of the Fort’s</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Northwest Cultural Resources
Institute with Portland State University,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Washington State University
Vancouver, supported by grants from NPS and the</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Fort Vancouver National Trust.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Related to
the field school, a new program at the Fort is bringing urban</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">youth and families to the fort,
to provide a hands-on experience with</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">activities from the 19th century,
to learn about the science of</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">archaeology, and reconnect to the diverse
histories of the Pacific</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Northwest through a series of day and overnight
camps.<span> </span>“This program</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">demonstrates how diversity is not</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">something new to the Pacific
Northwest,”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">said Ranger
Kimm Fox-Middleton.<span> </span>“The history and
archaeology at Fort</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Vancouver shows us how people of many different cultures worked
together</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">and
interacted in the past.<span> </span>We want to show
kids that the history of the</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Pacific Northwest is for everyone.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">The field
school will run one more week at the Village site until July 24,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">2010.<span> </span>The Village is </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";">we</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">st of the Fort Vancouver
reconstruction north of</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">the Vancouver Land Bridge.<span> </span><b>The public is welcome to visit Tuesday
through</b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Saturday, from 9:00 am to 4:00 p.m.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">The urban
youth program will continue through September. Contact for the</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Urban youth program: Kimm
Fox-Middleton, 360.816.6243.</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">Experience Your America</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";"></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">The National
Park Service cares for special places saved by the American</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Cambria","serif";" lang="RU">people so
that all may experience our heritage.</span></p>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Wendy Ann Wright<br>---------------------------<br>PTA President, Boise Eliot Neighborhood School<br>Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University<br><br>text/call 503.853.0595<br>
email <a href="mailto:wendyannwright@gmail.com">wendyannwright@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>