Hoxie et al. (eds.), "American Nations"

[David Lewis]

Using the Orbis system, I found the book at Whitman and George Fox Colleges.
Dvaid
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> Hoxie, Frederick E., Peter C. Mancall, and James H. Merrell
> (eds.)  "American Nations:  Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to the
> Present."  New York:  Routledge, 2001.
>
> Good bunch of essays in this book, including one co-authored by CHINOOK
> list member Coll-Peter Thrush of the U. of Washington, "'I See What I Have
> Done':  The Life and Murder Trial of Xwelas, a S'Klallam Woman" (with
> Robert H. Keller, Jr.), a look at contact dynamics in the period of first
> non-Indian settlement of Puget Sound.
>
> For my own use, I also found Sergei Kan's essay very absorbing:
"Shamanism
> and Christianity:  Modern Tlingit Elders Look at the Past".  Another paper
> that methodically investigates a chapter of Northwest history is "Jim Crow
> in Alaska:  The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945."  Both of
> these are studies of cultural contact as seen with a lens less narrow than
> that of linguistics.
>
> Some of the big names you'll also find here are Vine Deloria, Jr.
> ("Research, Redskins, and Reality"), and Ward Churchill with an article
> on "The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz:  Political Repression of the American
> Indian Movement in the 1970's" -- constructed of typically hard-hitting
> charges against the powers that be.
>
> The contributors range from journalists to Native activists to academics,
> and their contributions are generally based on solid knowledge and insight
> into how Native-nonNative relations came to where they now are.
>
> Over 519 pages, with something to fascinate almost anyone on our list.
>
> -- Dave