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  • The War on Illahee

    Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest

    by Marc James Carpenter ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    How a generation of pioneers and their historians knowingly hid the violent history of Indigenous dispossession in the Pacific NorthwestThe small, mostly forgotten wars of the 1850s in the American Pacific Northwest were part of a broader genocidal war—the War on Illahee—to seize Native land for Euro‑Americans. Illahee (a term for “homeland” in Chinook) was turned into the states of Oregon and ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

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    The War on Illahee

    Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest

    by Marc James Carpenter ...
    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 12 min

    The small, mostly forgotten wars of the 1850s in the American Pacific Northwest were part of a broader genocidal war—the War on Illahee—to seize Native land for Euro‑Americans. Illahee (a term for "homeland" in Chinook) was turned into the states of Oregon and Washington through the violence of invading soldiers, settlers, and serial killers. Clashes over the brutality of invasion—should it be ... Read more

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  • Making the White Man's West

    Whiteness and the Creation of the American West

    by Jason E. Pierce ...
    The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he ... Read more

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  • The Fatal Environment

    The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890

    by Richard Slotkin ...
    Series Book 2 - Mythology of the American West
    A two-time National Book Award finalist's "ambitious and provocative" look at Custer's Last Stand, capitalism, and the rise of the cowboys-and-Indians legend ( The New York Review of Books).In The Fatal Environment, historian Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of Native Americans helped justify the course of America's rise to wealth and power. Using ... Read more

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  • Blackfoot Redemption

    A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

    by William E. Farr ...
    In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus “disappeared” for more than thirty years, until a delegation of American Blackfeet discovered him and, aided by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, exacted a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Line of Blood and Dirt

    Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

    by Benjamin Hoy ...
    The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-United States border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Chosen and The Damned

    Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States

    by David J. Silverman ...
    A sweeping chronicle placing race at the center of Native American U.S. history, from the award-winning author of This Land Is Their Land.When the colonial era began, Europeans did not consider themselves as “Whites,” and Native Americans did not think of themselves as “Indians.” Yet as a genocidal struggle for America unfolded over the course of generations, all that changed. Euro-Americans ... Read more

    $20.69 USD

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  • After One Hundred Winters

    In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands

    by Margaret D. Jacobs ...
    A necessary reckoning with America’s troubled history of injustice to Indigenous peopleAfter One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of the individuals ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Hidden History of Portland, Oregon

    by JD Chandler ...
    Series series Hidden History
    In this engaging narrative, author JD Chandler crafts a people's history of Portland, Oregon, sharing the lesser-known stories of individuals who stood against the tide and fought for liberty and representation: C.E.S. Wood, who documented the conflict between Native Americans and the United States Army; Beatrice Morrow Cannady, founding member of the Portland NAACP and first African American ... Read more

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  • Seeing Red

    Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

    by Michael John Witgen ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. development in the Old Northwest. But, as ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • Indian Blues

    American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934

    by John W. Troutman ...
    Series Book 3 - New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice of music generate fear among government officials and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Misplaced Massacre

    Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek

    by Ari Kelman ...
    **Winner of the Bancroft PrizeAn award-winning account of the Sand Creek Massacre that killed hundreds of Native Americans and brutally reshaped the Colorado Territory.**In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds ... Read more

    $17.29 USD