The Nisqually are the original stewards of prairie lands, mountains, and rivers in Thurston and Pierce Counties. They welcomed British and American newcomers and tightly bound the outsiders to the Native American world. This volume visually explores the traditional time, when Nisqually political and economic control of the South Sound was supreme. As Nisqually men and women married and worked with outsiders, the Native American world was transformed. In 1854, Nisqually leaders signed a treaty with the United States and officially ceded most of their country, but the land and rights they reserved set the stage for a cultural revival in the 1970s.
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Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, 82, is the first historian to write in depth about the Nisqually people. She is a retired Tacoma schoolteacher and an enrolled member of the Nisqually tribe. Carpenter has an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Puget Sound, a Distinguished Alumni Award from Pacific Lutheran University, a Murray Morgan Award, a Governor's Ethnic Heritage Award, as well as other honors. Maria Victoria Pascualy is a curator at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma and a collaborator on a series of projects on the indigenous history of the area, including the first exhibit on the Medicine Creek Treaty. Researcher Trisha Hunter provided research and assistance for this project.
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This review is from: Nisqually Indian Tribe (WA) (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) (Paperback)
I bought this book for my son, who had chosen the Nisqually tribe of Washington state for his school report. The library only had academic studies from back in the 1940's, so I went to Amazon and stumbled across this small volume.It is primarily a picture book, but it does a very good job of documenting the basic facts about this tribe, which was double crossed by the US Government twice within 50 years. I found the captions to hold enough information to tell the story, and one advantage is that with captions, the facts have to be succinct, and they are. So one gets a good overall picture of the tribe, as well as having those pictures to bring it all to life. Very well done, and recommended for all ages.
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Cecelia Carpenter's map shows Nisqually place names on the Whulge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Courtesy Nisqually Indian Tribe Archive, Hudson's Bay Company, South Sound, Fort Lewis, Pierce County, Nisqually Reservation, Chief Leschi, Courtesy Washington State Historical Society, Isaac Stevens, Courtesy University of Washington Libraries, Medicine Creek Treaty, World War, United States, Mount Rainier, Nisqually River, Courtesy Oregon Historical Society, Catherine Mounts, Courtesy Lou Ann Squally, Daniel Mounts, Puget Sound, Yelm Jim, Puyallup Reservation, Cecelia Carpenter, Muck Creek, Billy Frank Browse Sample Pages:
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Cecelia Carpenter's map shows Nisqually place names on the Whulge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
treaty wars, tribal center Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Courtesy Nisqually Indian Tribe Archive, Hudson's Bay Company, South Sound, Fort Lewis, Pierce County, Nisqually Reservation, Chief Leschi, Courtesy Washington State Historical Society, Isaac Stevens, Courtesy University of Washington Libraries, Medicine Creek Treaty, World War, United States, Mount Rainier, Nisqually River, Courtesy Oregon Historical Society, Catherine Mounts, Courtesy Lou Ann Squally, Daniel Mounts, Puget Sound, Yelm Jim, Puyallup Reservation, Cecelia Carpenter, Muck Creek, Billy Frank Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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