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Adams, Leo (b. 1942)

A member of the Yakama Nation and one of Eastern Washington's most acclaimed artists, Leo Adams is a uniquely gifted painter and designer whose house overlooking the Yakima Valley has long been consid...

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Almonjuela, Dorothy: Growing Up Squamish

Dorothy Almonjuela (b. 1918) was born on an Indian reserve in North Vancouver, Canada. A Squamish Indian, she moved to Bainbridge Island in 1942. This account includes memories of her life on the rese...

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Arquette, William "Chief" (1884-1943)

William Arquette, a member of the Puyallup Indian Tribe who as a child living along Elliot Bay witnessed the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, was among the earliest musical stars from the Pacific Northwest...

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Bishop, Thomas G. (1859-1923) and William Bishop Jr. (1861-1934)

The political careers of the Bishop brothers, Thomas G. and William Jr., spanned a critical transition period for Coast Salish people in Western Washington between 1900 and 1935 that shaped subsequent...

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Bishop, William Sr. (1833-1906) and Sally Bishop Williams (1840-1916)

After the Puget Sound "Indian War" of 1855-1856, a number of high-status Coast Salish refugees relocated to Chimacum Prairie, south of Port Townsend at the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula. T...

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Boldt Decision: United States v. State of Washington

Though important legal cases are not usually known by the name of the judge who decides them, this one is. "The Boldt Decision," as it is commonly referred to, was one of the biggest court decisions i...

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Book Review:
A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest (Third Edition)

By Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, Cary C. Collins Foreword by Clifford E. Trafzer University of Oklahoma Press Trade Paperback, 415 pages Illustrations, maps, suggested readings, tribal name pronu...

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Book Review:
Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity

By Andrew H. Fisher The Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography Paperback, 337 pages Photographs, Notes, Bibliography, Index University of Washington Press ISBN 978...

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Book Review:
Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions

By Charlotte Coté Foreword by Micah McCarty Paperback, 273 pages Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index University of Washington Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-295-99046-0 $26.95

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Borst, Kate (1855-1938)

Kate Kanim Borst was a Native American woman who was the third wife of Snoqualmie Valley settler Jeremiah Borst. During her lifetime, she witnessed the transformation of the valley from prairies and I...

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Burke Museum (Seattle)

The Burke Museum, founded in 1885 by a group of teenage boys, is Washington's oldest museum. Since its inception, the museum has been part of the University of Washington, and has had various homes on...

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Cayuse Indians

The Cayuse Indians were once masters of a vast homeland of more than six million acres in what is now Washington and Oregon. The first of the Northwest tribes to acquire horses, they were relatively f...

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