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Person
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Wayne Suttles
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Description area
Dates of existence
1918 - 2005
History
Wayne Suttles was an American anthropologist and linguist. He was a leading authority on the ethnology and linguistics of the Coast Salish people of British Columbia and Washington State. Suttles taught at the University of British Columbia from 1952-1963, the University of Nevada-Reno from 1963-1966, and Portland State University until he retired in 1985.
Suttles received his doctorate from the University of Washington in 1951 - the first to receive a doctorate from UW's anthropology department.