Spokane Indian Research Articles

The Measurement of Assimilation: The Spokane Indians

The model for the measurement of assimilation is broken down into three social processes-acculturation, social integration, and amalgamation. Comparison is made between a random sample of Spokane Indians and a sample of whites residing in the same community. Acculturation measured in terms of socioeconomic-status variables-education, level of living, and occupation-showed that Indians have much lower status than whites. Social integration measures showed integration in the formal institutional systems which are set up primarily for Indians and cleavage in the voluntary organizations. Amalgamation-the percentage white ancestry among Indians-was inversely related to age and directly to education, level of living, and income.

Uranium mineralization at the Midnite Mine, Spokane, Washington

The Midnite Mine is located approximately 35 air miles nonthwest of Spokane, Washington, near the confluence of the Columbia and Spokane Rivers on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Uranium mineralization occurs in a zone along the contact between the Cretaceous Loon Lake granite and Precambrian metasediments. Ores appear to be found within and near associated fractures and shear zones. Secondary. oxidized uranium minerals, principally autunite and meta- autunite, lie above a fluctuating water table. while below this water table there occurs a zone of partially oxidized, sooty and compact uraninite. Sulfide mineralization is associated with the uraninite. Associated zones of argillic alteration that contain kaolinite, illite, montmorillonite and intermingled adularia further indicate the action of hydrothermal solutions. Botryoidal masses of marcasite and shrinkage cracks in the uraninite imply colloidal precipitation in the formation of the primary uranium ore. Ore deposition is inferred to have taken place at temperatures on the order of 300 deg C in a neutral or slightly acidic environment. (auth)