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The sea is my country: the maritime world of the Makahs, an indigenous borderlands people

By Reid , Joshua L

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN
9780300209907, 9780300213683, 0300213689
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7411616 bytes)
Series
Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Makah Indians

Description

For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group identity. Unlike most other indigenous tribes whose lives are tied to lands, the Makah people have long placed marine space at the centre of their culture, finding in their own waters the physical and spiritual resources to support themselves. This book explores the history and identity of the Makahs from the arrival of maritime fur-traders in the eighteenth century through the intervening centuries and to the present day.

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