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Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast through Cross-Cultural Marriages
Peace-weaving marriages between Salish families and pioneer men played a crucial role in mid-1800s regional settlement. Author Candace Wellman illuminates this hidden history and shatters stereotypes surrounding these relationships. The four exceptional women she profiles left a lasting legacy in their Puget Sound communities.
- GenresNonfictionHistory
302 pages, Paperback
First published May 15, 2017
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May 17, 2018
What a testament to good research. I can't even imagine how much time, effort and sleuthing went into finding information about the history of individuals who were a part of the indigenous cultures of the people of the Salish Coast. This is a wonderful, in depth, report of those forgotten women married to white pioneers who migrated to the Northwest for a variety of reasons, mostly to make their fortune. I'm sure the research into their prominent families was a much easier task.
These stories of four industrious women are fascinating, merely children when first married and producing babies who often could not survive to adulthood. They lived off the land while their spouses took on several different jobs to make a living and gain land grants to settle on.
It is sometimes a rather dense read because of the mere amount of information needed to understand the complexity of relationships of the intercultural marriages as well as the general disorder of the time in the wild west history when laws changed according to who was interpreting them. But, Candace handles this myriad information beautifully and the stories are clear and easy to follow.
There will be a second volume. I look forward to reading it.
These stories of four industrious women are fascinating, merely children when first married and producing babies who often could not survive to adulthood. They lived off the land while their spouses took on several different jobs to make a living and gain land grants to settle on.
It is sometimes a rather dense read because of the mere amount of information needed to understand the complexity of relationships of the intercultural marriages as well as the general disorder of the time in the wild west history when laws changed according to who was interpreting them. But, Candace handles this myriad information beautifully and the stories are clear and easy to follow.
There will be a second volume. I look forward to reading it.
March 2, 2019
Chapter 5 is about John's great - great grandma Nellie Lane!
December 10, 2020
Interesting read, about local Lummi and other tribes in the area, and the women who were part of them and the white men they married. Learned a lot about my area and some strong women.
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