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Encounters with the people : written and oral accounts of Nez Perce life to 1858
Title
Encounters with the people : written and oral accounts of Nez Perce life to 1858 / compiled and edited by Dennis Baird, Diane Mallickan, and W.R. Swagerty.
ISBN
9780874223309
087422330X
Publication
Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2015]
Physical Description
xxi, 522 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Zc16 N5 +2015en: Dust jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 25, 2015
Series
Voices from Nez Perce country ; volume one
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A bibliographic guide to the history and culture of the Nez Perce people / by William Swagerty
Accounts written by Nez Perce men
In the mountains
The earliest written accounts
Lewis and Clark among the Nez Perce people, 1805-1806
David Thompson and Alexander Henry, 1809-1812
Donald MacKenzie and the Astorians, 1811-1813
The Hudson's Bay Company and the fur trade in Nez Perce country, 1821-55
Botanist David Douglas visits the Clearwater in 1826
Encounters outside the heartland
The Nez Perce visit in the east, 1831-32
Captain Benjamin Bonneville among the Nez Perce, 1832-34
Protestant missions in the Clearwater region
Early Catholic accounts of the Nez Perce people
The Nez Perce in the Cayuse War, 1847-1850
The start of the Indian Agency in the Clearwater Valley
The Nez Perce people in Oregon Territory, 1850-1854
1855, the year of the treaty
The Nez perce People in the wars of 1855-58.
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