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The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch’inch’imamí
Reflections on Sahaptin Ways
The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch’inch’imamí is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional,...
ISBN: 9780295746128
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The Propeller under the Bed
A Personal History of Homebuilt Aircraft
On July 25, 2010, Arnold Ebneter flew across the country in a plane he designed and built himself, setting an aviation world record for aircraft of its class. He was eighty-two at the time and the...
ISBN: 9780295746081
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Olmsted in Seattle
Creating a Park System for a Modern City
In the midst of galloping growth at the turn of the twentieth century, Seattle’s city leaders seized on the confluence of a roaring economy with the City Beautiful movement to hire the Olmsted...
ISBN: 9781933245560
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Transit
The Story of Public Transportation in the Puget Sound Region
Ever since the first streetcars rumbled through the streets of Seattle in 1884, public transportation in the Puget Sound region has been a wild roller-coaster ride, replete with scandals, triumphs,...
ISBN: 9781933245553
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Reclaiming the Reservation
Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their laws to everyone on their reservations. This included...
ISBN: 9780295745855
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The Last Wilderness
Pray to the Empty Wells is a bilingual collection of poems by award-winning contemporary Ukrainian author Iryna Shuvalova. The 44 poems reflect the central section of Shuvalova’s forthcoming book...
ISBN: 9780295745336
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Razor Clams
Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest
In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to...
ISBN: 9780295745442
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The Deepest Roots
Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island
As friends began “going back to the land” at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcalá set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level. Remembering her...
ISBN: 9780295999708
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Puget's Sound
A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound
With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, “the City of Destiny,”...
ISBN: 9780295744230
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Concrete Mama
Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
Journalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned...
ISBN: 9780295743981
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The Seattle General Strike
“We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead—NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!” With these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919,...
ISBN: 9780295744162
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Gold Rush Manliness
Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went...
ISBN: 9780295744124
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John Okada
The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy
No-No Boy, John Okada’s only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from...
ISBN: 9780295743516
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Seattle, Past to Present
Roger Sale’s Seattle, Past to Present has become a beloved reflection of Seattle’s history and its possible futures as imagined in 1976, when the book was first published. Drawing on demographic...
ISBN: 9780295746371
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In Defense of Wyam
Native-White Alliances and the Struggle for Celilo Village
When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social...
ISBN: 9780295743585
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The Spokane River
From Lake Coeur d’Alene to its confluence with the Columbia, the Spokane River travels 111 miles of varied and often spectacular terrain—rural, urban, in places wild. The river has been a trading...
ISBN: 9780295743134
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Skid Road
An Informal Portrait of Seattle
Skid Road tells the story of Seattle “from the bottom up,” offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City’s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most...
ISBN: 9780295743493
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Indian Fishing
Early Methods on the Northwest Coast
First published in 1977 and unavailable for several years, Indian Fishing is more than a sterile account of the technology of fishing; it considers the momentous role of fish and fishing in...
ISBN: 9780295743899
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Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
“Company town.” The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores of...
ISBN: 9780295742915
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A Time to Rise
Collective Memoirs of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP)
A Time to Rise is an intimate look into the workings of the KDP, the only revolutionary organization that emerged in the Filipino American community during the politically turbulent 1970s...
ISBN: 9780295742021
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