The Journal of Northwest Anthropology , Volume 59, Number 1, includes the following articles: Finding Home Ground: Named Places and Political Geography in the Pacific Northwest , Astrida R. Blukis Onat; Structural Constraints and the Fertility of Japanese Immigrants in the Pacific Northwest During the Early 1900s, by Akiko Nosaka and Donna L. Leonetti; Taxonomically Diagnostic Skeletal Characters Used to Identify Zooarchaeological Mammalian Specimens in the Interior Pacific Northwest , by R. Lee Lyman; New Data on Personal Knives Found on Faddei Severnyi Island and in Simsa Bay , by Elena A. Okladnikova, translation by Richard L. Bland; Ethnobotany of Western Washington at 80: Commemorating Erna Gunther’s Pioneering Text, Updates, and Varied Impacts , by Jay Miller; Abstracts from the 75th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Virtual, 9–12 March 2022 .