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Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center
Pub. Date
©2005
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English
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Dr. Clifford Trafzer: The Wenatchi people called their place on earth by the name Winatsa, meaning "Water Gushing Out." The entire region is spectacular. From any direction, the Wenatchee Valley appears as a distinctive landscape. Driving east out of the mountains on Highway 2 in present-day Washington State, you can understand the Indian term for the stream, because the Wenatchee River runs wildly over white rocks lining the sandy and pebbly banks...
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University Press of Idaho
Pub. Date
©1980
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English
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"This story deals with one of the largest migrations by a single ethnic group to the Pacific Northwest. It is the saga of the Volga Germans who settled in this region and has a scenario stretching from Germany and Russia. It explores their European origins in the eighteenth century and investigates the remarkable program of colonization in augurated in the 1760s under the Russian empress, Catherine II."--Preface, page 5.
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