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Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name by David M  Buerge

Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name by David M Buerge | 31.03 MB
English | 318 Pages

Title: Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name
Author: David M. Buerge
Year: 2017




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This is the first thorough account of Chief Seattle and his times-the story of a half-century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a Native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community.
When the British, Spanish, and then Americans arrived in the Pacific Northwest, it may have appeared to them as an untamed wilderness. In fact it was a fully settled and populated land. Chief Seattle was a powerful representative from this very ancient world. Historian David M. Buerge has been researching and writing this book about the world of Chief Seattle for the past 20 years. Buerge has threaded together disparate accounts of the time from the 1780s to the 1860s-including native oral histories, Hudson Bay Company records, pioneer diaries, French Catholic church records, and historic newspaper reporting. Chief Seattle had gained power and prominence on Puget Sound as a war leader, but the arrival of...

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