Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day

Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coming of the White Man to the Present DayThe definitive and moving account of the Pacific Northwest tribes and their struggle to maintain their culture and traditional homelands. The Pacific Northwest was one of the most populated and prosperous regions for Native Americans before the coming of the white man. By the mid 1800s, measles and smallpox decimated the Indian population, and the remaining tribes were forced to give up their ancestral lands. Vine Deloria Jr. tells the story of these

That moment has arrived for Joan

Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan

Whereas early accounts treated the Ghost Dance as a military or political movement

and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment

and traditional dancers

His work is both a meditation on how Indigenous knowledge

I watch her be in multiple musics

Eldon tells his son the story of his own life—from an impoverished childhood to combat in the Korean War and his shell-shocked return

reflects an understanding that decolonizing actions must begin in the mind

Noodin introduces a series of seasonal poems that invoke Anishinaabe science and philosophy

into an all-Ojibway amateur circuit

Regina must find out: Who is Regina Petit