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Native Americans of the Pacific Coast
People of the Sea Wind. Well illustrated, factual information plus epic adventures of nine different Pacific Coast tribes three centuries ago along the Pacific shores.
272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1977
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December 21, 2017
Pros:
-Does a good job of separating different Pacific Coast Indigenous cultures into groups.
-Offers some brief information about each group/culture/tribe.
-Quick reading experience.
-Bibliography may be able to point you in new directions for further research.
Negs:
-Sections where oral stories are retold lack any citation, Indigenous voice, etc.
-Actual discussion of tribes is cut short, as most of the writing in each section is actually the retelling of an oral story (which could be beneficial depending on your research, but if you were unaware of the large story aspect of this book, it may be disappointing or less-than-helpful to your studies).
-In some areas multiple tribes are combined together, then only one tribe is really discussed.
This book may be a product of the research era. If you look at the bibliography there are some citations from the 1960s-1970s but then there is a lot of early 1900s citations. Perhaps there was a lag in the research in between. This book is likely part of the American Indian Renaissance and may have been written to begin/start new research on Pacific Northwest communities. While it may be helpful for providing a few sentences of information here and there, and could definitely be used to do so, I'd urge scholars to focus on larger tribally specific studies.
-Does a good job of separating different Pacific Coast Indigenous cultures into groups.
-Offers some brief information about each group/culture/tribe.
-Quick reading experience.
-Bibliography may be able to point you in new directions for further research.
Negs:
-Sections where oral stories are retold lack any citation, Indigenous voice, etc.
-Actual discussion of tribes is cut short, as most of the writing in each section is actually the retelling of an oral story (which could be beneficial depending on your research, but if you were unaware of the large story aspect of this book, it may be disappointing or less-than-helpful to your studies).
-In some areas multiple tribes are combined together, then only one tribe is really discussed.
This book may be a product of the research era. If you look at the bibliography there are some citations from the 1960s-1970s but then there is a lot of early 1900s citations. Perhaps there was a lag in the research in between. This book is likely part of the American Indian Renaissance and may have been written to begin/start new research on Pacific Northwest communities. While it may be helpful for providing a few sentences of information here and there, and could definitely be used to do so, I'd urge scholars to focus on larger tribally specific studies.
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