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In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now, scientists, writers, and ordinary citizens are fighting to bring them back to the wild. Peterson, an eloquent voice in the battle for twenty years, makes...
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American Experience
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[2012]
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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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To celebrate Oregon's 150th birthday, the Oregon Library Association has chosen one book for all Oregonians to read: Stubborn Twig. Lauren Kessler's award-winning book, the selection for the statewide Oregon Reads program, is a classic story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American.
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Hancock House
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©1982
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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,...
11) Washington
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Capstone Press
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©2004
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An introduction to the geography, history, government, politics, economy, resources, people, and culture of Washington, including maps, charts, and a recipe.
12) Island roots
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IslandWood
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[2009]
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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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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
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2001
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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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"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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Sasquatch Books
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2004.
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"Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds" is a collection of seventeen thoughtful essays on birds capture the sense of wonder and connection people have for these marvelous creatures. Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithology teacher and researcher, examines the amazing talents and personalities of the most common of birds. She muses on the tarnished reputation of the starling, the sexed-up antics of male woodpeckers, and the mysterious behavior and...
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Simon & Schuster
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"The skeleton known as Kennewick Man was discovered in 1966 by two young men along the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. When the skeleton was brought to Jim Chatters, a forensic anthropologist, Chatters first believed that the remains were those of a nineteenth-century pioneer. He was astonished when radiocarbon dating revealed the skeleton to be approximately 9,500 years old, making it one of the oldest skeletons ever found in North America....
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The Mountaineers
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1998
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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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