(fwd) Chinook readings

[Jeffrey Kopp]

Hi.  For the benefit of those who can't read HTML email (as well as
for my own archive), I am looping this back to the list as text.

Regards,

Jeff

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 08:14:55 -0800, Brett Rushforth
<brushforth at UCDAVIS.EDU> wrote:

For accessible secondary treatments of the lower Columbia tribes,
Richard White's The Organic Machine has a great first section.  One
of my favorites is Erna Gunther's Ethnobotany of Western Washington,
which covers many of the lower Columbia tribes, I think including the
Chinook.  The best study of plateau tribes is Eugene S. Hunn's
Nch'I-Wana, The Big River: Mid Columbia Indians and their Land. 
To go further north, by far the best book on Indians near the Puget
Sound is Alexandra Harmon's Indians in the Making.

For some articles, I'd start with Norton, Hunn, Martinsen, and Keely,
"Vegetable Food Products of the Foraging Economies of the Pacific
Northwest," Ecology of Food and Nutrition 14 (March 1984):
219-228.  It may seem odd to start there, but nothing is more
fundamental to understanding a people than their food.

By far the best dissertation on this topic is Yvonne Hajda's
"Regional and Social Organization in the Greater Lower Columbia,
1792-1830," U. Washington, 1984.

Quite surprisingly, there is no scholarly book-length overview of the
lower Columbia Indians.  Maybe one of you ought to give it a try.

Best,
Brett Rushforth
University of California, Davis