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This updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the experiences of local indigenous communities on whose land Seattle grew, accounts of Native migrants to the city and the development of a multi-tribal urban community, as well as the role Native Americans have played in the narrative of Seattle.

ISBN-13: 9780295741345

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Publication Date: 03-01-2017

Pages: 392

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Age Range: 18 Years

Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books

Coll Thrush is associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire.

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Ned Blackhawk

This is the best book, by far, that I have ever read about Indians and cities. Thrush's excavation and analysis are deep and wide-ranging, his narrative impassioned and engaging. A fantastic contribution.

William Cronon

Coll Thrush quite brilliantly weaves together accounts of the lived experiences of Native peoples in Seattle with the very different ways in which those experiences came to be recorded in white folklore and place-names and in the environmental fabric of Seattle's cultural landscapes. The result is a tour de force.

Philip Deloria

This book is a concerted effort to mobilize a new telling of history in order to reject what is essentially an ideological narrative of the past. Indian people, Thrush argues, were not simply part of the prehistory of the city, destined to give way before modernity. They were, in fact, active co-participants in its development. Well written and argued, this book forces readers to understand Seattle-and perhaps, by extension, other cities-in whole new ways.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Present Haunts of an Unvanished Past / William CrononPreface1. The Haunted City2. Terra Miscognita3. Seattle Illahee4. Mr. Glover's Imbricated City5. City of the Changers6. The Woven Coast7. The Changers, Changed8. On the Cusp of Past and Future9. Urban Renewal in Indian Territory10. The Returning HostsAn Atlas of Indigenous Seattle / Coll Thrush and Nile ThompsonMaps / Amir SheikhNotesBibliographyIndex