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,...

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...