Record Display for the EPA National Library Catalog

RECORD NUMBER: 4 OF 4

Main Title The sea is my country : the maritime world of the Makahs, an indigenous borderlands people /
Author Reid, Joshua L.,
Publisher Yale University Press,
Year Published 2015
OCLC Number 893896546
ISBN 9780300209907; 0300209908
Subjects Makah Indians ; Maritime anthropology--Washington (State) ; Walfang ; Fischerei ; Ethnische Identität ; Vancouver Island ; Peninsula Olympic
Internet Access
Description Access URL
Contributor biographical information https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1703/2014957518-b.html
Publisher description https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1703/2014957518-d.html
Holdings
Library Call Number Additional Info Location Last
Modified
Checkout
Status
ESAM  E99.M19R45 2015 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 09/14/2015 STATUS
Collation xvi, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Notes
Map on end papers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-377) and index.
Contents Notes
Foreword / by the Makah Tribal Council and Makah Cultural and Research Center -- 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. "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"--Jacket.