Robert T BoydRobert T. Boyd is a research anthropologist with the department of Anthropology at Portland State University. He is co-editor with Kenneth Ames and Tony Johnson, of Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia (University of Washington Press, 2013) editor of Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon State University Press, 1999), and author of The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874 (University of Washington Press & UBC Press, 1999), and Peoples of the Dalles: the Indians of Wascopam Mission (University of Nebraska Press, 1996). Read More Read Less