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The First Oregonians by
In 1991, the Oregon Council for the Humanities published The First Oregonians, the only single-volume, comprehensive history of Oregon's Native Americans. A regional bestseller, this collaborative project between the council, Oregon tribes, and scholars served as an invaluable reference for teachers, scholars, and general-interest readers before it went out of print in 1996. Now revised and expanded for a new generation of Oregonians, The First Oregonians provides a comprehensive view of Oregon's native peoples from the past to the present. In this remarkable volume, Oregon Indians tell their own stories, with more than half of the book's chapters written by members of Oregon's nine federally recognized tribes. Chapters on each tribe examine lifeways--from the traditional to the present day. Using oral histories and personal recollections, these chapters vividly depict not only a history of decimation and decline, but also a contemporary view of cultural revitalization, renewal, and continuity. The First Oregonians also includes essays exploring geography, federal-Indian relations, language, and art written by prominent Northwest scholars. And, as with the first edition, this new edition is richly illustrated with almost two hundred photographs, maps, and drawings. No other book offers as wide a variety of views and stories about the historical and contemporary experience of Oregon Indians. The First Oregonians is the definitive volume for all Oregonians interested in the fascinating story of Oregon's first peoples.
Call Number: E78.O6 F57 2007ISBN: 9781880377024Publication Date: 2007-10-15
Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries by
From first encounters in the late eighteenth century to modern tribal economies, this rich documentary history charts the major trends shaping the lives of Oregon Indians and how those Indians perceived their changing world.
ISBN: 9780870710889Publication Date: 2006-05-01
The Indians of Western Oregon: This Land Was Theirs by
How the world began -- The first Americans -- The land that was theirs -- The people of the valleys -- The people of the coast -- World views and attitudes -- Change in an Indian land -- The law and the land -- The fight for survival -- Reservation years -- Attempts to find justice -- The years since termination.
Call Number: E78.O6 B38ISBN: 0930998022Publication Date: 1977
An Arrow in the Earth: General Joel Palmer and the Indians of Oregon by
From the blackwater to the whitewater -- To Oregon -- Trail's end -- The Cayuse war -- Settling in -- The troubles of 1853 -- Massacre and politics -- Know nothings -- Walla Walla -- War -- The fires of autumn -- The General and the politicians -- Winter on the Rogue and Columbia -- Victory and defeat -- Last years.
Call Number: E83.84.P35 O36 1991ISBN: 875951553Publication Date: 1991-01-01
Oregon Indians: Culture, History & Current Affairs, an Atlas & Introduction by
An essential source for the study of the culture, geographic distribution, and social and political history of the Indians of Oregon. Detailed text and source notes address traditional, historical, and contemporary topics up to 1982.
Call Number: E78.O6 Z8 1983ISBN: 0875951090Publication Date: 2000-01-01
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by
2015 Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples' Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: "The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them." Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples' history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.
Call Number: E76.8 .D86 2014ISBN: 9780807000403Publication Date: 2014-09-16
Native Land Digital Map of Indigenous Tribes in Oregon today (click through to explore more on their site)
Willamette Falls Fishing Scaffolding
Tribal Council - Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde
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Columbia River Basketry: Gift of the Ancestors, Gift of the Earth by
Baskets made by the people of the mid-Columbia River are among the finest examples of Indian textile art in North America, and they are included in the collections of most major museums. The traditional designs and techniques of construction reveal a great artistic heritage that links modern basketmakers to their ancestors. Yet baskets are also everyday objects of a utilitarian nature that reveal much about mid-Columbia culture---a flat twined bag has greatest value when it is plump with dried roots, a coiled basket when full of huckleberries. In Columbia River Basketry, Mary Schlick writes about the weavers who at the time of European contact lived along the Columbia River from just above its confluence with the Yakima River westward to the vicinity of present-day Portland, Oregon, and Indian groups living along the river. She presents the baskets in the context of the lives of the people who created and used them. She also writes about the descendants of the early basket weavers, to whom basketry skills have been passed and from whom she herself learned to make baskets. Schlick blends mythology, personal reminiscences, materials, and basketry techniques. Written with deep understanding and appreciation of the artists and their work, Columbia River Basketry will be an inspirational sourcebook for basket weavers and other craftspeople. It will also serve as an invaluable reference for scholars, curators, and collectors in identifying, dating, and interpreting examples of Columbia River basketry.
ISBN: 0295972491Publication Date: 1994-02-01
Shadow Tribe: Making of Columbian River Indian Identity by
Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington. Largely overlooked in traditional accounts of tribal dispossession and confinement, their story illuminates the persistence of off-reservation Native communities and the fluidity of their identities over time. Cast in the imperfect light of federal policy and dimly perceived by non-Indian eyes, the flickering presence of the Columbia River Indians has followed the treaty tribes down the difficult path marked out by the forces of American colonization. Based on more than a decade of archival research and conversations with Native people, Andrew Fisher's groundbreaking book traces the waxing and waning of Columbia River Indian identity from the mid-nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. Fisher explains how, despite policies designed to destroy them, the shared experience of being off the reservation and at odds with recognized tribes forged far-flung river communities into a loose confederation called the Columbia River Tribe. Environmental changes and political pressures eroded their autonomy during the second half of the twentieth century, yet many River People continued to honor a common heritage of ancestral connection to the Columbia, resistance to the reservation system, devotion to cultural traditions, and detachment from the institutions of federal control and tribal governance. At times, their independent and uncompromising attitude has challenged the sovereignty of the recognized tribes, earning Columbia River Indians a reputation as radicals and troublemakers even among their own people. Shadow Tribe is part of a new wave of historical scholarship that shows Native American identities to be socially constructed, layered, and contested rather than fixed, singular, and unchanging. From his vantage point on the Columbia, Fisher has written a pioneering study that uses regional history to broaden our understanding of how Indians thwarted efforts to confine and define their existence within narrow reservation boundaries.
ISBN: 9780295990200Publication Date: 2010-07-01
Indian Fishing Early Methods on the Northwest Coast by
Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Reference keys, reference index; How the Fish Came into the Sea; Map; Contents; The People of the Sea; Hook, Line and Sinker; Fishing lines; Sinkers; Steam-bent hooks; Salmon trolling; The northern halibut hook; Lures; Floats; Clubs; Spears and Harpoons; Sturgeon fishing; Gaff hooks; The herring rake; Nets and Netting; Eulachon fishing; Traps and Weirs; Basket traps; Stone fish traps; The herring spawn harvest; Cooking and Preserving Fish; Cooking; Preserving fish; Dried herring spawn; Eulachon oil; Kelp bottles for eulachon oil; Fish knives
ISBN: 0888943326Publication Date: 1982
Empty Nets, Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River by
In 1939, the U.S. government promised to provide Columbia River Indians with replacements for traditional fishing sites flooded by the Bonneville Dam. This disturbing history recounts the Indian's 60-year struggle, in the courts and on the river, to persuade the government to keep its promise.
Call Number: KF8210.N37 U45 1999ISBN: 0870714694Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Stone, Bone, Antler and Shell: Artifacts of the Northwest Coast by
"This book is for anyone who has looked at artifacts from the Northwest Coast in a museum and wondered: "How were these made?" "What was their function?" "How were they used?" Hilary Stewart lifts artifacts out of their isolation in a glass case and puts them into the context of the life of early native people on the coast." "Archaeological excavations, or "digs," have unearthed an array of ancient artifacts. While items made of perishable materials such as wood, bark and hide usually decayed over time, many objects of stone, bone, antler and shell have been found." "In clear, easy to read text and over 1000 illustrations and 50 photos, Hilary Stewart depicts a wide range of artifacts. These tools, weapons, hunting and fishing gear, household and ceremonial items and ornaments reveal much about a people's way of life: how they fed, clothed, adorned and housed themselves; their technologies, skills and art; their trading and travelling patterns."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
ISBN: 1550544756Publication Date: 1996-06-01
Cedar Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians by
From the mighty cedar of the rainforest came a wealth of raw materials vital to the early Northwest Coast Indian way of life, its art and culture. For thousands of years these people developed the tools and technologies to fell the giant cedars that grew in profusion. They used the rot-resistant wood for graceful dugout canoes to travel the coastal waters, massive post-and-beam houses in which to live, steambent boxes for storage, monumental carved poles to declare their lineage and dramatic dance masks to evoke the spirit world. Every part of the cedar had a use. The versatile inner bark they wove into intricately patterned mats and baskets, plied into rope and processed to make the soft, warm, yet water-repellent clothing so well suited to the raincoast. Tough but flexible withes made lashing and heavy-duty rope. The roots they wove into watertight baskets embellished with strong designs. For all these gifts, the Northwest Coast peoples held the cedar and its spirit in high regard, believing deeply in its healing and spiritual powers. Respectfully, they addressed the cedar as Long Life Maker, Life Giver and Healing Woman. Anecdotes, oral history and the accounts of early explorers, traders and missionaries highlight the text. Her 550 drawings and a selection of 50 photographs depict how the people made and used the finished products of the incomparable tree of life to the Northwest Coast Indians--the cedar.
ISBN: 1322383677Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Indian Tribes as Sovereign Governments: A Sourcebook on Federal-Tribal History, Law, and Policy by ISBN: 0939890070Publication Date: 1991-05-01
