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Deals with the experiences of Native people in Seattle between the city's founding and the present day

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

About the Author

Coll Thrush is assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews

"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." -from the Foreword by William Cronon "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." -Ned Blackhawk, author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West "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." -Philip Deloria, author of Playing Indian and Indians in Unexpected Places