<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '>Exploring the Roots of Diversity<br><br> in the Far Northwest:<br><br><br> THE PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOL<br><br><br> At Fort Vancouver National Historic Site<br><br><br><br><br><br> Tuesday – Saturday, June 14 – July 30, 2011<br><br><br>Portland State University, Washington State University Vancouver, the<br>National Park Service, Northwest Cultural Resources Institute, and the Fort<br>Vancouver National Trust are pleased to announce a field school in<br>historical archaeology at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site and Lewis<br>and Clark National Park. The program will introduce the methods and<br>theories of fieldwork in historical archaeology. Students will participate<br>in all aspects of field and laboratory work: laying out units, excavation<br>by shovel and trowel, mapping, drawing, photography, and cleaning,<br>identifying, and analyzing artifacts. The season will also include lectures<br>by guest speakers and staff. The National Park Service and its partners<br>are committed to sharing cultural resources and preservation values with<br>the public. On a rotating basis, students will discuss the field school<br>activities with visitors, interpreting the significance of the site and the<br>educational purposes of the project.<br><br><br>Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is an unparalleled archaeological<br>laboratory, comprising the remains of Fort Vancouver, the ca.1825-1860<br>regional headquarters and supply depot for the Hudson’s Bay Company, and<br>Vancouver Barracks, the first (ca. 1849-2010) permanent U.S. Army post and<br>command center in the Pacific Northwest.<br><br><br>This year’s field school will explore Fort Vancouver’s multicultural<br>Village (also known as “Kanaka Village”). This colonial village was the<br>largest settlement in the Pacific Northwest in the 1830s and 1840s. It<br>contained people from all over the world and the Pacific Northwest,<br>including Native Hawaiians, African Americans, the Métis, and people of<br>many different American Indian tribes. The field school will provide a<br>means to recapture the early history of multiculturalism in the Pacific<br>Northwest while engaging the modern Portland/Vancouver area in the unique<br>history of their closest National Park site.<br><br><br>For one week during the latter portion of the course, the school will move<br>to Lewis and Clark National Park to conduct survey on new park lands.<br><br><br>For more information and an application, please go to:<br><a class="weblink" href="http://www.nps.gov/fova/historyculture/2011-public-archaeology-field-school.htm" target="browserView">http://www.nps.gov/fova/historyculture/2011-public-archaeology-field-school.htm</a><br><br><br>Applications are due no later than May 6, 2011.<br><br>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><br>Douglas C. Wilson, Ph.D., Director<br>Northwest Cultural Resources Institute<br>Fort Vancouver National Historic Site<br>612 East Reserve Street<br>Vancouver, Washington 98661<br>Phone: (360) 816-6251<br>Cell: (360) 921-5241<br></body></html>