Learn about Our Land and the People Who Were Here First

1) Coyote Was Going There : Indian Literature of the Oregon Country

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2) She's tricky like coyote: Annie Miner Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian woman

Author

Youst, Lionel

Series

The civilization of the American Indian volume 224

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She's Tricky Like Coyote is the story of Annie Miner Peterson, who was born in an Indian village on a tidal slough along the southern Oregon Coast in 1860. The few hundred Indians who still lived on the shores of the bay at that time were rapidly being replaced by whites from other parts of the country. In the 1930s, Annie dictated her story, in Miluk Coos, to anthropologist Melville Jacobs, who translated the account into English. Though only a few...

3) The first Oregonians

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4) indian fishing early methods on the northwest coas

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5) indian artifacts of the northwest coast

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6) American Indian Basketry and Other Native Arts

7) An Arrow in the Earth : General Joel Palmer and the Indians of Oregon

Author

O'Donnell, Terence

8) Pitch woman and other stories: the oral traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian

Author

Thompson, Coquelle

9) Requiem For a People: the Rogue Indians and the frontiersmen

Author

Beckham, Stephen Dow

Series

Northwest reprints volume 0

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Book, Reference

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Stephen Dow Beckham's classic history documents the subjugation and removal of southwestern Oregon's native peoples and the destruction of their ages-old lifeways during the Rogue River Wars of the 1850s. It tells of the penetration of their land by fur seekers, explorers, overland emigrants, and miners. Beckham also identifies the consequences of white settlement and mining. What had been a land of abundance endured significant ecological upset,...

10) A plea for the Indians: with facts and features of the late war in Oregon

Author

Beeson, John

11) The Indians of Western Oregon : This Land Was Theirs

Author

Beckham, Stephen Dow

12) Fine words & promises: a history of Indian policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation Tribes of Oregon in the last half of the nineteenth century

Author

Van Laere, M. Susan

13) The Rogue River Indian War and its aftermath, 1850-1980

Author

Schwartz, E. A

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Book, Book - Hardback, Reference

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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...

14) Grandma says: wake up, world!: [the wisdom, wit, advice and stories of "Grandma Aggie"]

Author

Pilgrim, Agnes Baker

Series

Legacy of the First Nation Voices of a Generation

Notes

The descriptive text for this entry is from the book publisher and was accurate at the time the book was created. As an informational update, Agnes Baker Pilgrim did pass away on November 27, 2019 at the age of 95.

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Agnes Baker Pilgrim, known to most as Grandma Aggie, is in her nineties and is the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe, one of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz.A descendant of both spiritual and political tribal leaders, Grandma Aggie travels tirelessly around the world to keep traditions alive, to help those in need, and to be a voice for the voiceless, helping everyone to remember to preserve our Earth for animals and each other in a spiritual...

15) The people are dancing again: the history of the Siletz tribe of western Oregon

Author

Wilkinson, Charles F

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Book, Book - Hardback