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The sea is my country : the maritime world of the Makahs, an indigenous borderlands people /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reid, Joshua L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2015]
Series:Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
Subjects:
Makah Indians.
Maritime anthropology > Washington (State)
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by the Makah Tribal Council and Makah Cultural and Research Center
  • Acknowledgments
  • A note about words and naming
  • Introduction: Just where does one get a license to kill Indians?
  • "The power of Wickaninnish ends here"
  • Inveterate wars and petty pilferings
  • "Depending on the success or good-will of the Natives"
  • "I want the sea"
  • "An anomaly in the Indian Service"
  • "Everything is played out here"
  • Conclusion: "Events happen when you get a whale"
  • Afterword / by Micah MccCrty.