Describes the ways in which a small but powerful Indian tribe hindered the white settlement of Oregon and Washington.
The Cayuse Indians
The Whitman Massacre: The History and Legacy of the Native American Attack on Missionaries that Started the Cayuse War looks at the chain of events that led to one of the most notorious attacks of the 19th century on the frontier.
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Tate’s account is a prism that allows us to see the multiple dimensions of a classic frontier conflict.” —Peter Stark, author of Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire “[Tate] tells the Cayuse’s ...
This book represents a new vista, looking past the days when there were two distinct groups-those who were studied and those who studied them.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Cayuse Indians, the Art of Michael G. Booth
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Here is a described a fictional interview between a Cayuse Indian, Tiloukaikt, and his imaginary white trapper friend."--Title page verso.