| The Nez Perces: The History of Their Troubles and the Campaign of 1877 Contributor(s): McDonald, Duncan (Author), Bigart, Robert (Editor), McDonald, Joseph (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1934594164 ISBN-13: 9781934594162 Publisher: Salish Kootenai College Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Native American - History | Military - United States - History | United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (or, Wa) |
| Dewey: 979.500 |
| LCCN: 2016004247 |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6" W x 9.08" (0.59 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This history of the Nez Perce War was written in 1878-79 by Duncan McDonald, a relative of Chief Looking Glass and the son of a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader and a Nez Perce Indian woman. McDonald spent most of his life on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. McDonald wrote the history based on interviews and family sources. In 1878 he traveled to Canada to interview Nez Perce chief White Bird and learn his side of the story. Remarkably, the history was published in a Deer Lodge, Montana, newspaper only a year or two after the war ended. McDonald's Nez Perce War history is published with a historical introduction and selection of his other essays on Indian affairs, in which he objects to the United States government's unjust treatment of northwest Indian tribes and condemns the threats of some Montana whites to attack Indians who were friendly to the settlers. |