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INDIAN - COLUMBIA PLATEAU
Ackerman, Lillian A. A Necessary Balance: Gender and Power among Indians of the Columbia Plateau.Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. ISBN 0806134852. Examines balance of power and responsibility between men and women on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington state.
Ackerman, Lillian A., ed. A Song to the Creator: Traditional Arts of Native American Women of the Plateau. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. ISBN 0806128763. Interviews with Plateau artists and articles by scholars studying the traditional art forms of Plateau people; storytelling, music, weaving, hide work, quill work, and beading.
Aguilar, George W., Sr. When the River Ran Wild: Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation. Introduction Jarold Ramsey. Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society Press, 2005. ISBN 9780295984841. A personal memoir and tribal history about the Kiksht (Wasco)-speaking Eastern Chinookans for centuries connected to the great fishing grounds of the Columbia River at Five Mile Rapids.
Bales, Michael and Ann Terry Hill. Pendleton Round-Up at 100: Oregon’s Legendary Rodeo. Introduction Roberta Conner and William F. Willingham. Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Books, 2009. ISBN 9780882407739, 9780882407746 (pb). History and highlights of the first one hundred years of the Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, OR, including the involvement and participation of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
Barber, Katrine. Death of Celilo Falls. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. ISBN 9780295985466. The useful study of the construction of The Dalles Dam takes on greater meaning as part of a larger pattern-- treaty rights, federal Indian policy, environmental transformation of rivers, and the idea of "progress."
Barnes, Don. “A History of the Tutuilla Presbyterian Church, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.” Donald J. Barnes & Caroline Davis, 2010. Subjects: Tutuilla Presbyterian Church, CTUIR, U.S. Presbyterian Church, J.M. Cornelison. Available at Pendleton Public Library (for in-library use only), call no. SP 979.5004 B261.
Beavert, Virginia and Sharon Hargus. Ichishkíin Sinwit Yakama / Yakama Sahaptin Dictionary. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. 566 pp. ISBN 0295989157 (pb). With essays by Bruce Rigsby and a CD of MP3 sound files. Sahaptin is the Penutian language spoken in south-central Washington and northeastern Oregon. This dictionary documents the Sahaptin dialect spoken by the Yakama people. It is the first modern published dictionary of any Sahaptin dialect.
Beckham, Stephen Dow, ed. Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 9780870710889, ISBN-10: 0870710885. Collection of documents telling Oregon history and stories from Indian perspectives. Includes selections on the Cayuse War, 1855 Walla Walla Treaty Council, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and contributions from CTUIR members.
Berg, Laura, ed. The First Oregonians. 2nd ed. Portland, OR: Oregon Council for the Humanities, 2007. ISBN-10: 1880377020; ISBN-13: 9781880377024. The definitive volume for all Oregonians interested in Oregon’s first peoples. Now revised, The First Oregonians provides a comprehensive view of Oregon’s native peoples from the past to the present.
Boyd, Robert. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. ISBN 0774807555, 0295978376 (pb).
Boyd, Robert, ed. Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1999. ISBN 0870714597. A series of papers about Indian use of burning as rangeland practice in the prehistoric West.
Boyd, Robert. People of The Dalles: The Indians of Wascopam Mission. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. ISBN 0803262329. Reconstructed from accounts of explorers, travelers, and the early writings of missionaries at Wascopam, in particular Reverend Henry Perkins. Includes firsthand observations of Cayuse Indian ways.
Bruchac, Joseph. The Native American Sweat Lodge: History and Legends. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1993. 4th printing, 1999. ISBN 0895946378, 089594636X (pb).
Cebula, Larry. Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700–1850. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. ISBN 9780803222434. Indian people are viewed as free actors and makers of their own history, however exception might be taken to the view of their world as impoverished and famine-ridden.
Clark, Ella C. Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. 350 pp. ISBN 0806107014.
Deloria, Vine, Jr. Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties: An Indian Declaration of Independence. 1974. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2000. ISBN 9780292707542. Discussion of BIA, Indian sovereignty, the treaty process and treaty rights, and the emergence of Indian activism.
Densley, Lillian Cummings and Aaron G. Densley. Governor Joseph Gale and His Indian First Lady. Baker City, OR: Snake River Secrets, 2010. ISBN 9780962374838. Explores the lives of Joseph and Eliza Gale, the first Governor and First Lady of Oregon. Eliza Gale was the daughter of Old Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce and half-sister of Young Chief Joseph and War Chief Ollokot. Includes references to the 1855 Walla Walla Treaty Council.
Drury, Clifford M. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and the Opening of Old Oregon. Seattle: Northwest Interpreters Association, 1986. 2 vols. ISBN 0914019082. Available in entirety for download of e-book chapters at the National Park Service website, http://www.nps.gov/whmi/historyculture/drury-book.htm
Dupris, J.C., K.S. Hill, and W.H. Rodgers. The Si'lailo Way: Indians, Salmon, and Law on the Columbia River. Foreword Vine Deloria, Jr. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2006. ISBN 9781594600852. Stories told through the eyes and words of the Indian people who lived them. It features the legal means invoked by the Indians to protect their fisheries and their way of life.
Evans, John W. Powerful Rockey: The Blue Mountains and the Oregon Trail, 1811-1883. LaGrande, OR: Eastern Oregon State College, 1991. ISBN 0962677213 (pb). Eyewitness accounts of the route from Farewell Bend to the Umatilla River as related through pioneer diaries, enhanced with quad maps and photographs.
Evans, Steven Ross. Voice of the Old Wolf: Lucullus Virgil McWhorter and the Nez Perce Indians. Pullman, WA: Washington State University, 1996. ISBN 0874221293. Primary source account of the Nez Perce War.
Fisher, Andrew H. Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Identity. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. ISBN 9780295990200 (pb). First in-depth history of the Columbia River Indians whose ancestors refused to settle on reservations in Oregon and Washington.
Frey, Rodney, ed. Stories That Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest. As told by Lawrence Aripa, Tom Yellowtail, and other elders. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. ISBN 0806131314 (pb).
Furtwangler, Albert. Bringing Indians to the Book. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. ISBN 9780295985237. Engaging, idiosyncratic analysis of the Protestant missionaries whose writings left only glimpses of the world they sought to change.
Gerber, Michele Stenehjem. On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site. 1992. Introduction John M. Findlay. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 9780803259959, ISBN-10: 0803259956. Examines the history of the Hanford Nuclear Site and its environmental repercussions.
Glassley, Ray Hoard. Indian Wars of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, OR: Binford & Mort, 1972. ISBN 0832300144. Conflicts between tribes and whites beginning in the 1840s across the Northwest Territory and ending with the flight of Chief Joseph in 1878-79.
Grafe, Steven. Peoples of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898-1915.Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.ISBN 0806137274. This volume of remarkable photos captures the lives of Plateau Indians at the turn of the 20th century.
Gross, Joan, ed. Teaching Oregon Native Languages. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780870711930. Discussion of loss and revival of Oregon native languages, including Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Cayuse.
Harless, Susan E., ed. Native Arts of the Columbia Plateau: The Doris Swayze Bounds Collection. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. ISBN 0295977523, 029597673X (pb). Essays on the aesthetics and techniques of Plateau material cultures including analysis of symbol and design by Maynard White Owl Lavadour, Cayuse-Nez Perce artist.
Harmon, Alexandra, ed. The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest. Foreword John Borrows. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. ISBN 9780295988382, 9780295988399 (pb). Essays on the impact of the corpus of Indian treaties include, “The Stevens Treaties, Indian Claims Commission Docket 264, and the Ancient One known as Kennewick Man” by Bruce Rigsby.
Hines, Donald M. Celilo Tales: Wasco Myths, Legends, Tales of Magic and the Marvelous. Issaquah, WA: Great Eagle Publishing Inc., 1996. ISBN 0962953954.
Hines, Donald M. Magic in the Mountains: The Yakima Shaman Power & Practice. Issaquah, WA: Great Eagle Publishing Inc., 1993. ISBN 0962953938.
Hoxie, Frederick E. A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920. 1984. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Pres, 2001. ISBN 0803273274. Federal Indian policy in the modern era.
Hoxie, Frederick E. and Jay T. Nelson, ed. Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: The Native American Perspective. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 9780252074851, ISBN 0252074858 (pb). Collection of essays that neither glorify nor vilify the expedition but deepen the collective assessment of the American past.
Hunn, Eugene S.; Morning Owl, E. Thomas; Cash Cash, Phillip E.; Karson Engum, Jennifer; with Haug, Daniel B.; Conner, Roberta L.; Rigsby, Bruce J.; Chess, John M.; Minthorn, Modesta J. Čáw Pawá Láakni: They Are Not Forgotten Sahaptian Place Names Atlas of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. ISBN9780295990262 (pb). Ethnographic atlas of Native place names of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla peoples.
Hunn, Eugene S. with James Selam and family. Nch'i-wana, 'The Big River' : Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989. ISBN 0295968516 (pb). Authoritative study of ethnobiology and the effects of the environment and ecology on the lives of Sahaptin people of the Columbia River plateau.
Jackson, John C. A Little War of Destiny: The First Legion of Oregon Mounted Volunteers and the Yakima Indian War of 1855-56. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1995. ISBN 0877705658 (pb). Indians experienced territorial displacement and inevitable defeat. Includes Walla Walla tribal participation and the death of PeoPeoMaqsMaqs, Walla Walla leader.
Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. ISBN 080612623X (pb). Both white and Native American perspectives are told in this balanced narrative, revealing the cultural constraints that worked against human understanding between the two cultures.
Jessett, Thomas E. The Indian Side of the Whitman Massacre. 1973. Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1986. ISBN 0877703744. A fictive “interview” between Tiloukaikt of the Cayuse and his white trapper friend. Why the misnamed “massacre” happened.
Jones, Suzi and Jarold Ramsey, ed. The Stories We Tell: An Anthology of Oregon Folk Literature . Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0870713795, 0870713809 (pb). Collection of a variety of ethnic folklore.
Josephy, Alvin M., Jr., ed. Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes. New York: Knopf, 2006. ISBN-10: 1400042674, ISBN-13: 9781400042678. Includes essays by nine descendants of the Indians whose homelands were traversed by the expedition.
Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971. ISBN 0300014945, 0300014880.
Karson, Jennifer, ed. Wiyaxayxt / Wiyaakaa'awn / As Days Go By: Our History, Our Land, Our People - The Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla. Seattle: University of Washington Press with Oregon Historical Society Press and Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, 2006. ISBN 0295986239,9780295986234. Non-Indian and tribal scholars compiled a tribal history that is both accessible and built on a firm foundation of scholarship.
Keyser, James D. Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. ISBN 0295971975, 0295971606 (pb). Reference addresses basic questions of what petroglyphs and pictographs are, how they were produced, and how archaeologists classify and date them.
Kip, Lawrence. Indian Council at Walla Walla. 1897. Seattle: Shorey Book Store, 1971. ISBN 0846602407. Day to day diary of a military man who was at the 1855 treaty council at old Fort Walla Walla and recorded statements by tribal leaders.
Landeen, Dan and Allen Pinkham. Salmon and His People. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1999. ISBN 1881090329, 1881090337 (pb). Nez Perce tribal testaments and stories about their lives in the salmon culture. Out of print
Lang, William L. and Robert L. Carriker, ed. Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. ISBN 0295977779.
Lansing, Ronald B. Juggernaut: The Whitman Massacre Trial, 1850. Pasadena, CA: Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, 1993. ISBN 0963508601. Folksy narrative account, accessible for general readers, of the trial of the Cayuse Indians accused of killing Whitman Mission inhabitants in 1847, raises questions about cross-cultural conflict and the meaning of justice.
Miller, Christopher L. Prophetic Worlds: Indians and Whites on the Columbia Plateau. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1985. ISBN-13: 9780813510842, ISBN-10: 0813510848. Revisionist ethnohistory considers the millenarian visions of Plateau Indians and American missionaries.
Miller, Robert J. Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny. 2006. Foreword Elizabeth Furse. Afterword Robert J. Miller. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 240 pp. ISBN 0803215983. Fresh look at American history through the lens of the Doctrine of Discovery—the legal basis used to lay claim to the lands of indigenous peoples.
Munnick, Harriet Duncan and Adrian R. Munnick, comp. Catholic Church Records of the Pacific Northwest: Mission of St. Ann and St. Rose of the Cayouse, 1847-1888, Walla Walla and Frenchtown, 1859-1872, Frenchtown, 1872-1888. Illus. A.R. Munnick. Portland, OR: Binford & Mort Pub., 1989. ISBN 0832304662. Listings of births, deaths, and sacraments dispensed, useful for genealogy study.
Nicandri, David L. Northwest Chiefs: Gustov Sohon's Views of the 1855 Stevens Treaty Councils. Tacoma, WA: Washington State Historical Society, 1986. ISBN 0917048598. Exhibition catalog of Gustavus Sohon’s pencil drawings, the only images of the generation of Northwest Indian leaders who participated in treaty-making with the United States.
Nichols, Roger L., ed. The American Indian: Past and Present. 6th ed. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. ISBN 9780806138565. Includes ‘They Mean to be Indian Always:’ The Origins of the Columbia River Indian Identity, 1860-1885,” by Andrew H. Fisher, pp. 187-206.