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• Thunder Song

  Essays

  LaPointe, Sasha taqwšeblu,

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  Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Twilight on the Thunderbird

  a Memoir of Quileute Indian Life

  Hansen, Howard, 1923-

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  For much of his life, Howie has assembled the lore and language of his native people, supplementing his own copious writings (more than a million words) with tape recordings and his own drawings of the personalities he knew in the tribe, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rights Remembered

  a Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future

  Hillaire, Pauline, 1929 or 1931-2016,

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  Pauline R. Hillaire , Scälla-Of the Killer Whale (Lummi) shares her autobiography, a contemporary Native American woman that combines her own life experiences, tribal oral traditions, and the written record of relationships between the United States…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gifted Earth

  the Ethnobotany of the Quinault and Neighboring Tribes

  Deur, Douglas, 1969-

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  Gifted Earth presents a rich and living tradition of plant use within the Quinault Indian Nation on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, developed in collaboration with and endorsed by the tribe. It provides detailed information on the use of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Honne, the Spirit of the Chehalis

  the Indian Interpretation of the Origin of the People and Animals

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  Honne, the Spirit of the Chehalis embodies a narrative tour de force that interweaves episodes (that stand alone in ordinary tellings) into an integrated series of installments. This collection of Salish stories features the Changer's efforts to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tulalip, From My Heart

  An Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community

  Dover, Harriette Shelton, 1904-1991

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  In Tulalip, From My Heart , Harriette Shelton Dover describes her life on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced after resettlement. Born in 1904, Dover grew up hearing the elders of her tribe tell of the hardships…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak

  Black Hawk (Sauk chief), 1767-1838,

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  Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak (1833) is the autobiography of Sauk chief Black Hawk. Dictated to government interpreter Antoine LeClair following nearly a year in captivity, Black Hawk's Autobiography captures his youth among the Sauk in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Sing the Salmon Home

  Poems From Washington State

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  This anthology sings of salmon--lamented and praised, hooked, and netted, spawned out and dammed from home; of their magnificence and generosity, of how the fish continue to give and of what they gave. For this unique collection celebrating salmon,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Project 562

  Changing the Way We See Native America

  Wilbur, Matika,

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  In 2012, Matika Wilbur from the Swinomish and Tulalip peoples Washington sold everything in her Seattle apartment and set out on a Kickstarter-funded pursuit to visit, engage, and photograph people from what were then the 562 federally recognized…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bartering With the Bones of Their Dead

  the Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination

  Arnold, Laurie

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  Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation. Over one hundred federally…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jesintel

  Living Wisdom From Coast Salish Elders

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  Featuring interviews that share powerful experiences and stories, Jesintel illuminates the importance of ethical reciprocal relationships and the interconnectedness of places, land, water, and the spirit within all things. Elders offer their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula

  Who We Are

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  The nine Native tribes of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula--the Hoh, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Quinault, Quileute, and Makah--share complex histories of trade, religion, warfare,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Anakú Iwachá

  Yakama Legends and Stories

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  The original edition of Anakú Iwachá featured stories that Yakama Tribal Elders recorded in several dialects of the Ichishkíin language that were collected and translated into English by renowned linguist and scholar Virginia Beavert. This new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

  a Memoir

  Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

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  Presents a literary memoir of poems, essays, and intimate family photos that reflect on the author's complicated relationship with his mother and his disadvantaged childhood on a Native American reservation.

• Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain

  Washington's Olympic Peninsula

  McNulty, Tim,

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  In Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain, Tim McNulty explores the Olympic Peninsula's complex--and ongoing--story of development, conservation, restoration, and cultural heritage, while writers from the Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam, Port Gamble…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Singing the Songs of My Ancestors

  the Life and Music of Helma Swan, Makah Elder

  Goodman, Linda, 1943-

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  Ever since she was a small child, Helma Swan, the daughter of a Northwest Coast chief, loved and learned the music of her people. As an adult she began to sing, even though traditionally Makah singers had been men. How did such a situation develop?…Read moreRead more of this annotation