Eleanor Houk and Their Impact on Oregon History: Biography of an Indigenous Woman
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Title
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Eleanor Houk and Their Impact on Oregon History: Biography of an Indigenous Woman
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Creator
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Katie J Snyder
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Date of Award
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6/15/2025
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Honors Program Director
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Gavin Keulks
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Faculty Advisor
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Kimberley Jensen
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Abstract
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Eleanor Houk made history in Oregon by becoming the first Indigenous woman to attend the University of Oregon. I will be using this thesis to explore how her culture and status as a minority could have affected her life through a combination of primary and secondary sources. I will be focusing on the different stages of her life and some of the different settings that would have affected her, specifically her time at two residential schools and her move halfway across the country as an orphan. I want to explore how this time impacted her later in life and her choice to become a teacher at the residential schools she was at for much of her childhood.
Through this research I hope to expand the online platform – Oregon Women’s Consortium – to which his project was originally posted. The purpose of the Oregon Women’s Consortium is to shed light on the history of Oregon women who have been either ignored or under-researched. My project will provide a more thorough exploration of Eleanor Houk’s life story as well as the experiences she had because of her heritage. This will aid in creating a more complete history of important women in Oregon’s history.
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Type
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Text
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Department
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Honors
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Language
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eng
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Rights
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Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 6/29/2025, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author.
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https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
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Identifier
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honorstheses_091725e
