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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). 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 Halkomelem, which Suttles had been studying since the late 1950s.

Born: 1918
Died: 2005-05-09