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Melissa Darby is affiliated research faculty in the Anthropology Department at Portland State University. Darby has worked for over forty years as an archaeologist and historian in the Northwest and is a noted authority on the ethnohistory of the Native people of the lower Columbia River region. Her research on Native American cultures of the area includes important works on settlement patterns, plankhouse architecture, and plant foods used by the indigenous people of the region. She has contributed substantially to our understanding of the Native peoples and the world they inhabited prior to European colonization. Her book "Thunder Go North: the Hunt for Sir Francis Drake’s Fair & Good Bay" was published by the University of Utah Press in 2019 and is about the mysterious and vexed question of where Francis Drake landed the Golden Hind in the summer of 1579.