The War on Illahee: Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marc James CarpenterSeries:The Lamar Western HistoryPublish date:9/30/2025Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300275735ISBN-10:300275730UPC:9780300275735Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Indigenous, United StatesBook Topic:Contact, European Invasion & Exploration, State & Local, 19th CenturyProduct ID:SCCGRV1A24
The War on Illahee: Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest
How a generation of pioneers and their historians knowingly hid the violent history of Indigenous dispossession in the Pacific Northwest The small, mostly forgotten wars of the 1850s in the American Pacific Northwest were part of a broader genocidal war--the War on Illahee--to seize Native land for Euro-Americans. Illahee (a term for "homeland" in Chinook) was turned into the states of Oregon...
Series: The Lamar Western History
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300275735ISBN-10:300275730UPC:9780300275735Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Indigenous, United StatesBook Topic:Contact, European Invasion & Exploration, State & Local, 19th CenturyProduct ID:SCCGRV1A24
Marc James Carpenter grew up in Oregon and now works as associate professor of history at the University of Jamestown in North Dakota. He has published in American Indian Quarterly, Oregon Historical Quarterly, and Settler Colonial Studies.
Publisher: Yale University Press
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