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Author Ruby, Robert H.

Title Indians of the Pacific Northwest : a history / Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown ; with a foreword by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.

Publication Info. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1981]
©1981

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  970.495 Q    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 294 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Series The Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 158
Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 158.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 279-283.
Note Includes index.
Contents Contact by sea -- Contact by land -- Furs and furies -- Natives and Nor'Westers -- Tribes, traps, and troubles -- Barter with the "bay" -- Strange new thing -- Black-robe medicine -- American settlers and unsettled Indians -- Blood in the rye grass -- Ravage on the rogue -- Narrowing circles -- Treaties or treatment? -- Tempest unleashed -- Shirt still bloodied -- Broken bows -- Subsistence-with and without reservations -- Bitterroot and bitter route -- Paiute predicament -- "Biggest little war" -- Prophets and politicians -- Nez Perce house-a hiatus -- Bannock-Paiutes-embattled tribesmen -- Reserved for Indians -- Epilogue-change of worlds.
Subject Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- History.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Northwest, Pacific -- History.
Indexed Term Pacific Northwest Coast Indian civilization
Added Author Brown, John A. (John Arthur), 1914-2004.
ISBN 0806117311
0806121130 paperback
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