The Small Shall Be Strong : A History of Lake Tahoe's Washoe Indians /
"For thousands of years the Washoe people have lived in the shadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the center of their lands sits beautiful Lake Tahoe, a named derived from the Washoe word Da ow a go. Perhaps because the Washoe population has always been small or because it has been more pe...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2018]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The people from here
- Newcomers
- Violent transformations
- The chaos of destruction
- Survival : protecting the pine nut lands
- Washoe colonies
- Prejudice and persistence
- Carrying it
- The journey home
- Afterword.