E. A Schwartz
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
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Indigenous Land and Rights: History, Politics, and Future
Learn about Our Land and the People Who Were Here First
Tribes of the Rogue Valley
Learn about Our Land and the People Who Were Here First
Tribes of the Rogue Valley
Description
This history of the native peoples of western Oregon is a systematic study of the formation, application and effects of United States Indian policy. Historian E.A. Schwartz tells how contacts with whites early in the nineteenth century culminated in the pork-barrel Rogue River War of 1855-56, in which the Rogue River peoples demonstrated superior tactics and repeatedly drove off more-numerous opponents. Schwartz narrates how the Indian peoples known...