| The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America Contributor(s): Kluger, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307388964 ISBN-13: 9780307388964 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (or, Wa) - History | United States - 19th Century - History | Native American |
| Dewey: 979.700 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.23" W x 8.02" (0.75 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Geographic Orientation - Washington - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Kluger brings to life a bloody clash between Native Americans and white settlers in the 1850s Pacific Northwest. After he was appointed the first governor of the state of Washington, Isaac Ingalls Stevens had one goal: to persuade the Indians of the Puget Sound region to leave their ancestral lands for inhospitable reservations. But Stevens's program--marked by threat and misrepresentation--outraged the Nisqually tribe and its chief, Leschi, sparking the native resistance movement. Tragically, Leschi's resistance unwittingly turned his tribe and himself into victims of the governor's relentless wrath. The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek is a riveting chronicle of how violence and rebellion grew out of frontier oppression and injustice. |