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  • Nowhere to Remember

    Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943

    by Laura Arata, David W. Harvey, Michael Mays ...
    Series Book 1 - Hanford Histories
    “There wasn’t that many people, but they were good people.”--Madeline Gilles“First time I ever tasted cherries or even seen a cherry tree was [in White Bluffs]. Or ever ate an apricot or seen an apricot…It was covered with orchards and alfalfa fields.”--Leatris Boehmer ReidEuro-American Priest River Valley settlers turned acres of sagebrush into fruit orchards. Although farm life required hard ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance

    Voices from the Hanford Region

    by Laura J. Arata, Thomas E. Marceau, Michael Mays ...
    Series Book 3 - Hanford Histories
    Like the rest of the American West, the mid-Columbia region has always been diverse. Its history mirrors common multiracial narratives, but with important nuances. In the late 1880s, Chinese railroad workers were segregated to East Pasco, a practice that later extended to all non-whites and continued for decades. Kennewick residents became openly proud of their status as a “lily-white” town.In ... Read more

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  • Race and the Wild West

    Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930

    by Laura J. Arata ...
    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    Winner of the Western Writers of America “SPUR Award” and the Western Association of Women Historians “Gita Chaudhuri Prize”!Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (1852–1931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City. Race and the Wild West is the first full-length biography of this remarkable woman, whose ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Creating Minnesota

    A History from the Inside Out

    by Annette Atkins ...
    Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book.Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Women of the Northern Plains

    Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier

    by Barbara Handy-Marchello ...
    In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women. As the men struggled to raise and sell wheat, the women focused on barnyard labor—raising chickens and cows and selling eggs and butter—to feed and clothe their families and maintain their households through booms and busts. Handy-Marchello focuses on ... Read more

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  • We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here

    Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941

    by William J. Bauer Jr. ...
    The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849, during the California gold rush, people from several of these tribes were relocated to a reservation farm in northern Mendocino County. Fusing Native American history and labor history, William Bauer Jr. chronicles the evolution of work, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Contested Boundaries

    A New Pacific Northwest History

    by David J. Jepsen, David J. Norberg ...
    Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History is an engaging, contemporary look at the themes, events, and people that have shaped the history of the Pacific Northwest over the last two centuries.An engaging look at the themes, events, and people that shaped the Pacific Northwest – Washington, Oregon, and Idaho – from when only Native Peoples inhabited the land through the twentieth ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

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  • A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3

    The Ozarkers

    by Brooks Blevins ...
    Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneers—a cast of colorful throwbacks hostile to change. But the real Ozarks reflected a more complex reality.Brooks Blevins tells the cultural history of the Ozarks as a regional variation of an American story. As ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Indians on the Move

    Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century

    by Douglas K. Miller ...
    Series series Critical Indigeneities
    In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. At the time the program ended, many groups — from government leaders to Red Power activists — had already classified it as a failure, and scholars have subsequently positioned the program as ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work."Every Canadian should read [this] book." —Toronto StarSince its publication in 2012, The Inconvenient Indian has become an award-winning bestseller and a modern classic. In its pages, Thomas King tells the curiously circular tale of the ... Read more

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  • Indian Nations of Wisconsin

    Histories of Endurance and Renewal, 2 Edition

    by Patty Loew ...
    From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and sovereignty issues, Indian Nations of Wisconsin explores Wisconsin's rich Native tradition. This unique volume—based on the historical perspectives of the state’s Native peoples—includes compact tribal histories of the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oneida, Menominee, Mohican, Ho-Chunk, and Brothertown Indians. Author Patty Loew focuses on ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • By the Fire We Carry

    The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

    by Rebecca Nagle ...
    "No part of the judiciary exposes the chasm between American ideals and institutional practice like federal Indian law. In By the Fire We Carry, Nagle, a Cherokee journalist, turns a case most Americans haven’t heard of into a legal thriller." —New York Times Book ReviewNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 • Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year • NPR 2024 "Books We Loved" ... Read more

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