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Publisher
American Experience
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Featuring the men and women who lived and worked at Grand Coulee in the wake of the Great Depression and the Native people whose lives were changed alongside historians and engineers, the film explores how the tension between technological achievement and environmental impact hangs over the project's legacy.
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"Awarded a Guggenheim to investigate the legends of Sasquatch, Dr. Robert Pyle trekked into the unprotected wilderness of the Dark Divide near Mount St. Helens, where he discovered both a giant fossil footprint and recent tracks. He searched out Indians who told him of an outcast tribe, the Seeahtiks, who had not fully evolved into humans. He attended Sasquatch Daze, where he met scientists, hunters, and others who have devoted their lives to the...
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Hancock House
Pub. Date
©1982
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English
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This book describes the elements that make these baskets works of art. For hundreds of years Indian weavers throughout North America have created baskets that are stunning works of art as well as utilitarian objects used for collecting, carrying and a variety of other activities. This concise, readable book describes the elements that make these baskets words of art. The careful preparation of roots and grasses, the painstaking stitching of coils,...
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"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...
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Handbook of North American Indians volume 14
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Bennett Watt HD Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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The Klickitat River is a 75 mile long wild & scenic tributary of the mighty Columbia Rvier. Located in south central Washington State, this is the home of excellent summer-run steelhead fishing--Publisher description.
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Marshall Pub. and Promotions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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2 documentary programs. The Oregon Trail is an account of America's longest and most famous pioneer trail, covering the reasons for going, the landscape crossed, and the experience as described in immigrants' diaries. The Pony Express describes the gamble that bankrupted the men who started it, and lasted only 19 months, but made a legend of its riders and provided a vital link between California and the Northern states at the start of the Civil War....
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Handbook of North American Indians volume 13 part 1
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For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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12) Island roots
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IslandWood
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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"The story of the Filipino pioneers who emigrated to the United States and subsequently to the Pacific Northwest in the 1920s and 30s. They came to Bainbridge Island, Washington, to work the land, mostly on Japanese-American owned strawberry farms. It is the story of their relationship with other island residents, including Canadian First Nation migrant workers. It is the story of the land, and how the Filipino community became its stewards during...
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Dee Brown's fascinating history of women on America's western frontier "Who was the western Woman? What was she like, this gentle yet persistent tamer of the wild land that was the American West?" These are questions that Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, sets out to answer in this spirited work of social history. He outlines the many types of female pioneers: housewives to rebels, schoolteachers to saloon women....
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Oregon field guide volume 1001
Publisher
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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Spectacular floods changed the landscape of Oregon and Washington some 17,000 years ago, when Ice Age glacial dams near Missoula, Montana, broke apart and unleashed an inland sea. The powerful flood--what geologists believe was the greatest moving body of water in the earth's history--tore open the landscape of eastern Washington, merged with the Columbia River and left what is now Portland, Oregon, under 400 feet of water. The floods carried fertile...
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English
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In Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain, Charles R. Cross, author of the New York Times bestselling Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, examines the legacy of the Nirvana front man and takes on the question: why does Kurt Cobain still matter so much, 20 years after his death?
Kurt Cobain is the icon born of the 90s, a man whose legacy continues to influence pop culture and music. Cross explores the impact Cobain has had on music,...
18) Bigfoot
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English
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Learn the legends and facts about this creature, including reported sightings, possible habitats, and scientific explanations. A full description of the mystery, possible explanations, and remaining questions are all explored. 'Myth or Fact?' sidebars describe common misconceptions and confirm surprising facts. Additional features include a table of contents, a glossary of key words and phrases, sources for further research, and an introduction to...
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The Mountaineers
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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From its place in ancient Native American legends as Tahoma, the "great white mountain," and Tacobet, "nourishing breast," to its position as a symbol of the Northwest today, Mount Rainier has always been a dominant presence in this region. In 1999 we will celebrate the foresight of those who, a century earlier, created Mount Rainier National Park. With that single act they protected for future generations the wild beauty of the area's alpine meadows,...
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