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'''Verne Frederick Ray,''' (1905 – September 28, 2003) was [[anthropology]] [[professor]] at the [[University of Washington]], with a  B.A. and M.A. in anthropology from Washington and a Ph.D. (in 1937) from [[Yale]]. Ray was one of the first [[anthropologist]]s at UW,<ref name="col">{{Cite web|url=http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/march04/extras_ray.html|title=Verne F. Ray 1905-2003|accessdate=2008-07-17|publisher=University of Washington|date=March 2004|first=Lydia|last=Ratna|work=Columns}}</ref> was  head of the Department of Anthropology and associate dean of the graduate school.

He is known best for assisting Northwest tribes with tribal land-claim settlements and is viewed as pioneer in the field of [[ethnohistory]].<ref name="aid">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20031104/OBBRIEF04-2|title=Anthropologist Aided Land-claim Cases|accessdate=2008-07-17|date=2004-11-04|work=The Globe and Mail}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> The [[Cowlitz (tribe)|Cowlitz]] tribe, which he helped gain federal recognition, made him an honorary member in 2000.<ref name="win"/><ref name="AAobit">"OBITUARIES - Verne F. Ray (1905-2003)" by William R Seaburg 	''American anthropologist''. 107, no. 1, (2005): 180</ref> Some of his papers are held at [[Gonzaga University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://researchguides.gonzaga.edu/c.php?g=67720&p=436920|title=LibGuides: Manuscript Collections: Ray|last=Plowman|first=Stephanie|website=researchguides.gonzaga.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-05-02}}</ref>

He was married to fellow anthropologist and author [[Dorothy Jean Ray]].<ref name="UNI">{{cite web |title=Dorothy Jean Tostlebe Ray |url=https://library.uni.edu/collections/special-collections/biographical-sketches/dorothy-jean-tostlebe-ray |via=University of Northern Iowa |publisher=Waterloo Courier|date=December 16, 2007|page=B5}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
He is the author or editor of 52 books dealing with the anthropology of the American Indians of the Northwest.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Verne+F.+Ray&fq=dt%3Abks+%3E+ap%3A%22ray%2C+verne+frederick%22&qt=facet_ap%3A Worldcat]</ref> In particular, his work with the Interior Salish Tribes of Washington following the passage of the [[Indian Claims Commission Act]] in 1946<ref name="col"/> led to the publication of a number of important articles on the tribes,<ref name="win">{{Cite web|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/144930_rayobit22.html|title=UW Anthropologist Helped Tribes Win Land-Claim Suits|accessdate=2008-07-17|date=2003-10-22|author=John Iwasaki|work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]}}</ref> including the following:

*Ray, Verne F.  "The Columbia Confederacy:  A League of Central Plateau Tribes."  In [[Stanley Diamond]], editor, ''Culture in History:  Essays in Honor of [[Paul Radin]]''.  Columbia University Press:  New York, 1960, pp.&nbsp;771–789.
*Ray, Verne F. "Cultural Relations in the Plateau of Northwestern America."  Publications of the [[Frederick Webb Hodge]] Anniversary Publication Fund, Vol. III.  Los Angeles, 1939.
*Ray, Verne F.  "Ethnohistorical Notes on the Columbia, Chelan, Entiat, and Wenatchee Tribes," Interior Salish and Eastern Washington Indians IV. Garland Publishing Inc.:  New York, 1974.
*Ray, Verne F. "Native Village and Groupings of the Columbia Basin," ''[[Pacific Northwest Quarterly]]''.  Vol. 27 No. 2, April, 1936.
*Ray, Verne F., The Sanpoil and Nespelem: Salishan Peoples of Northeastern Washington (New Haven, Human Relations Area Files, 1954) [Originally published as Vol. V, University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, 1933].

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