The sea is my country : the maritime world of the Makahs, an indigenous borderlands people

Reid, Joshua L. (author.). Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation, Washington. Tribal Council. (Added Author). Makah Cultural and Research Center. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780300209907
ISBN: 0300209908
ISBN: 9780300213683
ISBN: 0300213689
ISBN: 9780300209907
Physical Description: print
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xvi, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
1 online resources (xvi, 400 pages): illustrations, maps.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

General Note:	Map on end papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-377) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 4, 2015).