| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
American Indian lives |
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American Indian lives.
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| Summary |
"An autobiography of a contemporary Native American woman that combines her own life experiences, tribal oral traditions, and the written record of relationships between the United States and the native peoples of the Northwest Coast to provide a Native view of recent history"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: American Indian history and the future -- A short autobiography -- Prologue: The abundance that was the great Northwest -- Part 1. The nineteenth century and before -- Forgotten genocide -- The building of America -- Centuries of injustice -- Reservation creation -- After the treaty -- Part 2. The twentieth century and after -- Legal and land rights -- A shrinking land base, persecution, and racism -- Aboriginal fishermen -- Break through ahistory -- Part 3. Oral history and cultural teachings -- Scälla of the Killer Whale : a song of hope -- Earth, our first teacher -- Poems by Joseph R. Hillaire and Pauline R. Hillaire -- History in the time of the Treaty of Point Elliott : an oration by Joseph R. Hillaire -- Afterword: And to my father -- Appendix 1: Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855 -- Appendix 2: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007 -- Appendix 3: Events in U.S. Indian history and policy, emphasizing the Point Elliott Treaty tribes. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 24, 2016). |
| Subject |
Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
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Salish Indians -- Poetry.
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Salish Indians -- Social life and customs.
(OCoLC)fst01104029
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Indians, Treatment of -- Northwest, Pacific -- History.
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Salish Indians -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Salish women -- Biography.
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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Salish Indians. (OCoLC)fst01104021
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Indian grandmothers. (OCoLC)fst01903585
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Salish women. (OCoLC)fst01104041
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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| Genre/Form |
Treaties. (OCoLC)fst01423868
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Indians of North America -- Government relations.
(OCoLC)fst00969761
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Northwest, Pacific -- Race relations -- History.
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Salish Indians -- Social life and customs.
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Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- Treaties.
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Hillaire, Pauline, 1929- (OCoLC)fst01944509
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Northwest, Pacific -- Government relations -- History.
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| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- Government relations -- History.
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Indian grandmothers -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography.
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| Local Subject |
Indian grandmothers -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography.
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| Subject |
Hillaire, Pauline, 1929 or 1931-2016
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Indians, Treatment of. (OCoLC)fst00970120
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Northwest, Pacific -- Treaties.
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| Subject |
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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Northwest, Pacific. (OCoLC)fst01242543
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- Northwest, Pacific -- History.
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| Added Author |
Fields, Gregory P., 1961- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780803285781 (electronic bk.) |
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0803285787 (electronic bk.) |
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9780803285804 (electronic bk.) |
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0803285809 (electronic bk.) |
