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• Title:The sea is my country : the maritime world of the Makahs, an indigenous borderlands people / Joshua L. Reid ; [foreword by the Makah Tribal Council and Makah Cultural and Resarch Center ; afterword by Micah McCarty].
  
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• Variant Title:Maritime world of the Makahs, an indigenous borderlands people
  
• Author/Creator:Reid, Joshua L., author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation, Washington. Tribal Council.
  Makah Cultural and Research Center.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
  ©2015
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: CU R45 S42 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Maritime anthropology--Washington (State)
  
• Description:xvi, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
  
• Summary:"For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group identity. Unlike most other indigenous tribes whose lives are tied to lands, the Makah people have long placed marine space at the center of their culture, finding in their own waters the physical and spiritual resources to support themselves. This book is the first to explore the history and identity of the Makahs from the arrival of maritime fur traders in the eighteenth century through the intervening centuries and to the present day."--Dust jacket.
  
• Notes:Map on end papers.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-377) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780300209907
  0300209908
  
• 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 McCarty.