Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries
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- Synopsis
- From their first encounters with European traders along the coast to their struggles for the restoration of tribal rights in the 1980s, the Indians or Oregon have managed to hold onto their identity in a constantly changing world. In this book Beckham tells the story of Oregon's Indians through letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles, and legal documents. Beckham begins each entry by setting it in context, often giving biographical information about the people involved in a particular incident. The book is very sympathetic toward Native American perspective, and reveals how Oregon's Indians were cheated and abused again and again for more than two hundred years.
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 571 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780870710889
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 11/12/07
- Copyrighted By:
- Stephen Dow Beckham
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Deborah Kent Stein
- Proofread By:
- Freda
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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