Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek : A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America

English

Series: Vintage Ser.

ISBN: 0307388964

EAN: 9780307388964

Category: History / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa)/History / Native American/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 03/21/2012

Synopsis: 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 Stevenss program--marked by threat and misrepresentation--outraged the Nisqually tribe and its chief, Leschi, sparking the native resistance movement. Tragically, Leschis resistance unwittingly turned his tribe and himself into victims of the governors relentless wrath. The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creekis a riveting chronicle of how violence and rebellion grew out of frontier oppression and injustice.

Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek : A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.78 inches

Width: 5.17 inches

Length: 8.01 inches

Weight: 12.03 oz

Pages: 368