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Sally Snyder papers, 1886-2022

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Snyder, Sally, 1930-
Title
Sally Snyder papers
Dates
1886-2022 (inclusive)
Quantity
2.29 cubic feet (3 boxes including 1 flash drive)
Collection Number
6506 (Accession No. 6506-001)
Summary
Research materials from a University of Washington professor and anthropologist
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Access to portions of the collection is restricted. Restricted materials (Box 2) are not to be shared without Tribal permission from each separate tribe (including access to the digitized copy). Contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections for details.

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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Dr. Sally Snyder was an anthropologist, professor, and researcher whose work focused on Psychological Anthropology, Cultural Ecology, North American Native Americans, specifically on the North Pacific Coast, Anthropology of Nutrition, Symbolic Anthropology and Projective systems, and Polynesian cultures. She attended the University of Washington, graduating with her BA in Anthropology and a minor in Psychology in 1951, then later completing her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1964. Both following and between her degrees she conducted full-time research on Puget Sound Native American cultures, field and statistical genetics, and transcultural social psychological, and psychiatric studies at the University of Washington where she worked closely with Melville Jacobs. She also researched at the Rockland State Hospital Research Facility in New York and the Institute for Cooperative Research.

Snyder taught multiple undergraduate and graduate anthropology, psychiatry, and community and interdisciplinary behavioral-biological sciences courses at universities from 1958 to 1977. These universities included Portland State University, Louisiana State University Medical School, The Merrill-Palmer Institute, the University of Alberta, and the University of Windsor. She was a founding member of the University of Alberta’s Anthropology department and, as a protégé of Margaret Mead, was instrumental in persuading Dr. Mead to visit the department in the 1960s. Snyder wrote many published and unpublished papers, technical reports, book reviews, conference papers, and speeches. She was on the Editorial Advisory board for the Ecology of Food and Nutrition International Journal and was on the Board of Directors, advisory, and steering committee for the Association for the Development of the Commonwealth Cultural Knowledge. She was also a fellow of the American Anthropological Association.

Sally Snyder was an expert witness in the Indian Land Claims cases as an Anthropologist representing the lower Skagit, Kikiallus, Swinomish, and Stillaguamish tribes vs. the United States in the 1950s. The Indian Land Claims Cases were a series of legal cases “against the United States on behalf of any Indian tribe, band, or other identifiable groups of American Indians residing within the territorial limits of the United States or Alaska” who believed the federal government had treated them unjustly through treaty violations, confiscation of land, and other grievances. These cases began following the Indian Claims Commission Act in 1946 which resulted in the creation of The Indian Claims Commission. The outcome of the Indian Land Claims cases was monetary compensation for the over 300 tribal treaties that ceded land to the United States. Snyder was also involved in a 1983 case that concerned the Tulalip Tribes’ request for the determination of usual and accustomed fishing places. The Tulalip Tribes include the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skykomish, and other allied tribes and bands that signed the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott and reside on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. Snyder and the other Anthropologists and tribal elders testified the extent of treaty-time areas where Tulalip predecessors usually and customarily fished. This case also included testimony from Dr. Barbara Lane, with whom Snyder did consulting work.

Sources (accessed August 2023): Google sites University of Alberta Department of Anthropology department people page. Tulalip Tribe Who We Are page - https://www.tulaliptribes-nsn.gov/WhoWeAre/AboutUs

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Content Description

Sally Snyder testimonies, notes, papers, articles, research materials, legal materials, and one flash drive. Some materials were removed from binders and arranged in their appropriate series. Other documents relating to Snyder are also held in the Melville Jacobs Collection including General communication, speeches and writings (1956-1971), doctoral exam (1957), Ethnographic Field notes 1955, and Field Notebooks 1950-1954.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

To the extent that they own the copyright, the donor has transferred the copyright of the materials to the University of Washington; however, copyright in some items in this collection may be held by their respective creators. Users are responsible for researching copyright status before use. Restricted materials (Box 2) are not to be used without Tribal permission from each separate Tribe (including access to the digitized copy).

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Organized into 3 accessions.

  • Accession No. Series 1, Sally Snyder Biographical Information
  • Accession No. Series 2, Sally Snyder Academic and Professional Work
  • Accession No. Series 3, Legal Work

Acquisition Information

Donated by Astrida Onat 16 May 2023. Sally Snyder gave the materials to Onat between 1978 and 1986 when Onat and Snyder worked together.

Related Materials

Melville Jacobs papers, 1918-1978

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

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Subject Terms

  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)


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