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Framing Chief Leschi : Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice /

Washington's first governor, Isaac Ingalls Stevens, attempted to persuade the Indians of the Puget Sound region to turn over their ancestral lands to the federal government. In return, they were to be consigned to reservations unsuitable for hunting, fishing, or grazing--their traditional means...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blee, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Colonialism
  • Law and war
  • Leschi stories
  • The Leschi message
  • Performing justice
  • Haunting.