In the fall of 2012, a member of the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History advisory council made a challenge to the museum: a $250,000 matching gift dedicated to the PaleoIndian Endowment.
The museum has one year to raise the additional $250,000 to reap the full amount of the matching gift.
The MNCH archaeologists are leaders in PaleoIndian research and the endowment will support archaeological research, publication and field school study related to PaleoIndian populations in Oregon's Great Basin and beyond.