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Wayne Suttles was an American anthropologist and linguist, specializing in the area of the Coast Salish peoples (Washington and British Columbia). Suttles was recruited into the US Navy in 1941, soon after he finished his first degree, and was posted to Okinawa as a Naval Japanese language officer. While stationed there, he conducted research related to Okinawa culture and language. Suttles returned to the Pacific Northwest in 1946, and in 1951 he was the first person to earn a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Washington. His first teaching postition was at UBC from 1952 to 1963; then he went to the University of Nevada-Reno from 1963-1966, then the Portland State University, until he retired in 1985. In 2004 he published the "Musqueam Reference Grammar" (UBC Press), a comprehensive work on the Musqueam dialect of hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ which Suttles had been studying since the late 1950s.

Born: 1918
Died: 2005-05-09