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Haunted by waters : a journey through race and place in the American West /

Using a wide range of materials that include memoirs, oral interviews, poetry, legal cases, letters, government documents, and even road signs, Robert Hayashi illustrates how Thomas Jefferson's vision of an agrarian, all white, and democratic West affected the Gem State's Nez Perce, Chines...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hayashi, Robert Terry, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2007.
Series:American land and life series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The innocence of our intentions: Thomas Jefferson, the Corps of Discovery, and the natural progression of Idaho
  • Matching the hatch: Nikkei, the environment, and Idaho statehood
  • O pioneers: the democratic spaces of Minidoka
  • Haunted by waters: Shoshone, Mormon, and Japanese American relations to place.