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The Civilization of the American Indian volume 158
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University of Oklahoma Press
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©1981.
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English
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Northwest historical volume 17
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A.H. Clark Co
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1993.
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English
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 173
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University of Oklahoma Press
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©1986
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English
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Historical information concerning Indian tribes located in the Pacific Northwest. Major tribes described include the Cathlamet, Cowlitz, Klamath, Lummi, Nez Perce, Paiute, Puyallup, Shoshoni, Spokane, (Spokan), Suquamish, Tillamook.
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 104
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University of Oklahoma Press
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This tribal history of the Spokane Indians begins with an account of their early life in the Pacific Northwest central plateau region before the arrival of white settlers and fur traders in the eighteenth century. It then describes in harrowing detail the U.S. government's encroachment on their lands and the subsequent enforced settlement of Spokane people on reservations. The volume concludes with a presentation of twentieth-century developments,...
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University of Oklahoma Press
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[1996]
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English
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This richly detailed, well-documented history describes the life of the Squaxin spiritual leader John Slocum and the growth in the Pacific Northwest of his Indian Shaker Church (not to be confused with eastern Shakerism). Students of Native American religion and Christianity will find this a moving story both of assimilation and of the curing that is the Shaker Church's reason for being. The Indian Shaker movement began in 1882 when the charismatic...
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University of Nebraska Press
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©2010
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English
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"In 1953 young surgeon Robert H. Ruby began work as the chief medical officer at the hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He began writing almost daily to his sister, describing the Oglala Lakota people he served, his Bureau of Indian Affairs colleagues, and day-to-day life on the reservation."--Inside jacket
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