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The sea is my country : the maritime world of the Makahs, an indigenous borderlands people
Author
Title
The sea is my country : the maritime world of the Makahs, an indigenous borderlands people / Joshua L. Reid.
ISBN
9780300209907
0300209908
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
xvi, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2015
Series
The Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-377) and index.
Contents
Foreword / by the Makah Tribal Council and Makah Cultural and Research Center
Acknowledgments
A note about words and naming
Introduction: Just where does one get a license to kill Indians?
"The power of Wickaninnish ends here"
Inveterate wars and petty pilferings
"Depending on the success or good-will of the Natives"
"I want the sea"
"An anomaly in the Indian Service"
"Everything is played out here"
Conclusion: "Events happen when you get a whale"
Afterword / by Micah MccCrty
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