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Lewis and Clark through Indian Eyes: Nine Indian Writers on the Legacy of the Expedition (Vintage)
by Alvin M. Josephy Jr.  Publisher Comments For the first time in the two hundred years since Lewis and Clark led their expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific, we hear the other side of the story — as we listen to nine descendants of the Indians whose homelands were traversed. Among...
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Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis and Clarke's Indian Collection
by Castle McLaughlin and Hillel S. Burger Publisher Comments When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the Corps of Discovery on their epic journey across the American West, they were acting not only as territorial explorers but also as diplomatic emissaries from Jefferson's U, S. government to the Indian...
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Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers #2: Nine Visits to the Mythworld
by Ghandl And Bringhurst Publisher Comments The nine stories contained in this volume are the finest offerings from one of the last of the traditional Haida storytellers, Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas. Ghandl was born in 1851 in a small Haida island community off the coast of British Columbia. His...
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Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest
by Clifford E Trafzer Publisher Comments This story of western expansion and Indian-white conflict is sensitively retold from the perspective of Native Americans. Renegade Tribe examines written and oral sources left by both cultures....
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The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850-1980
by E A Schwartz Publisher Comments This history of the native peoples of western Oregon is a systematic study of the formation, application and effects of United States Indian policy. Historian E. A. Schwartz tells how contacts with whites early in the nineteenth century culminated in the...
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Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: The Native American Perspective
by Frederick Hoxie Publisher Comments Incorporating multiple perspectives on the Lewis and Clark expedition and its...
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The Cayuse Indians: Imperial Tribesmen of Old Oregon
by Robert Ruby Publisher Comments In this book, Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown tell the story of the Cayuse people, from their early years through the nineteenth century, when the tribe was forced to move to a reservation. First published in 1972, this expanded edition is published in...
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First Fish First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim
by Judith Roche Publisher Comments This collection brings together writers from two continents and four countries whose traditional cultures are based on Pacific wild salmon. 72 duotone photos. Line drawings....
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The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by Salish-pend D'oreille Culture Committee Publisher Comments On September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing horses, preparing for the fall bison hunt, and harvesting chokecherries as they had done for countless...
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The Flight of the Nez Perce
by Mark H Brown Publisher Comments In the centuries of war between Indians and whites one episode is surely epical: the flight of the Nez Perce. Provoked by bad treaties and bitter memories, in 1877 a few Nez Perce raided homesteads in Idaho and killed their inhabitants. The raid quickly...
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In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09
by Mary Ellicot Arnold Publisher Comments In 1908 two young women—the authors of this book—accepted Indian Service appointments as field matrons for the Karok Indians in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern California. Although the area had been the scene of a gold rush...
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Yellow Wolf: His Own Story
by Lucullus Mcwhorter Publisher Comments Yellow Wolf was one of the last surviving participants of the Nez Perce War. This is his story of the hitherto unrevealed Indian strategy and policy in that conflict as told to L.V. McWhorter, his friend for decades. Many researchers consider this book a...
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Nisqually Indian Tribe (Images of America)
by Cecelia Svinth Carpenter Synopsis The Nisqually are the original stewards of prairie lands, mountains, and rivers in Thurston and Pierce Counties. They welcomed British and American newcomers and tightly bound the outsiders to the Native American world. This volume visually explores the...
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I Will Fight No More Forever
by Merrill D Beal Publisher Comments In this superb summation of the ethnohistory of the Nez Perce tribe containing also careful analyses of the military campaigns and political events and a wholly balanced review of facts, opinions, and previous evaluations of the situation and...
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Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography
by Mourning Dove Publisher Comments Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a member of the Colville Federated Tribes of eastern Washington State. She was the author of Cogewea, The Half-Blood (one of the first novels to be published by a Native American woman) and Coyote...
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Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians
by Hilary Stewart Publisher Comments From the giant cedar of the rainforest came a wealth of raw materials vital to the way of life, art and culture of the early First Nations people of the Northwest Coast. All parts of the cedar tree had many uses. From the wood, skilled men made ocean...
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Empty Nets 2ND Edition Indians Dams & the Columb
by Roberta Ulrich Publisher Comments Empty Nets is a disturbing history of broken promises and justice delayed. It chronicles a native people's fight to maintain their livelihood and culture in the face of an indifferent federal bureaucracy and hostile state governments. In 1939, the U.S...
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Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy
by Kent Nerburn Publisher Comments Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark and the westward moving pioneers lies another journey, every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a...
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The First Oregonians (Second Edition)
by Laura Berg Publisher Comments In 1991, the Oregon Council for the Humanities published The First Oregonians, the only single-volume, comprehensive history of Oregon's Native Americans. A regional bestseller, this collaborative project between the council, Oregon tribes, and scholars...
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
by Alvin M Josephy Publisher Comments Is there any chapter in American history more dramatic than that of the Northwest from the time of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877? Heroic - and not so heroic -characters abound: explorers, fur traders, miners, settlers...
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