SWORP offers unparalleled opportunities to access many different types of documents easily and efficiently. The Inventory especially facilitates research on SWORP.

Scholars have begun answering questions of ethnohistory and correcting erroneous histories about Oregon Tribes.

Many scholars of Oregon Indian ethnohistory have benefitted by having the collection here and have used it for dissertations and theses. We have begun to fill in the hole associated with Oregon Native history and culture only a decade earlier by George Wasson.

Tribes from throughout the Northwest are becoming aware of SWORP and are designing similar projects. We have had inquiries from Muckleshoot, Colville, and Hoopa Valley in particular who have consulted with us on how the project operated and what sorts of information SWORP contains related to them. These consultations are ongoing.

As more is understood about the SWORP collection, its potential for providing information on issues of Tribal sovereignty and Traditional intellectual knowledge is apparent. With all of the allotment and land records in SWORP, there is likely to be this potential.

There is a need to develop more SWORP style field research projects and visit other archival repositories throughout the world. We have found that there is a potential to visit archives in Spain, Russia, England, Canada, and France find documents relevant to Oregon Indians. There are many repositories in the United States, in particular, Seattle, Berkeley, San Bruno, Chicago, Philadelphia and still Washington, D.C. where there are important manuscripts for collection.

We have found that there is a need for program and curriculum development using SWORP as a model.

Native students need a program to train them in research. SWORP has become a model of a type of research necessary to many Tribal programs. As Native Tribes develop their government infrastructure, research become an important skill for administrators and staff at every level.

A research training program needs to enlist Tribal involvement and young scholars to ensure relevancy and survivability.   We are just beginning to understand the potentials of SWORP. The following generations can benefit from our efforts and carry our research further. For anthropology, SWORP pushes the traditional boundaries of the discipline by bringing students into a closer relationship with all of this information. Having the SWORP collection here has the potential to raise the caliber of the anthropological and historical discourse about Oregon Native history in particular and Indian histroy in general. As more native people enter this discourse I expect to see further enhancement to these areas of scholarship. Thank you.