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Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West

Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West

Tate, Cassandra

Hardcover

Native American History19th Century United States HistoryRegional: Pacific Northwest

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ISBN10: 163217250X
ISBN13: 9781632172501
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: Nov 17 2020
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.06
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
A highly-readable, myth-busting history of the Whitman Massacre--a pivotal event in the history of the American West--that includes the often-missing Native American point of view.

In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, devout missionaries from upstate New York, established a Presbyterian mission on Cayuse Indian land near what is now the fashionable wine capital of Walla Walla, Washington. Eleven years later, a group of Cayuses killed the Whitmans and eleven others in what became known as the Whitman Massacre. The attack led to a war of retaliation against the Cayuse; the extension of federal control over the present-day states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming; and martyrdom for the Whitmans. Today, however, the Whitmans are more likely to be demonized as colonizers than revered as heroes.

In Unsettled Ground, historian and journalist Cassandra Tate takes a fresh look at the personalities, dynamics, disputes, social pressures, and shifting legacy of a pivotal event in the history of the American West.

[Tate] tells the Cayuse's side of the story with empathy and clarity . . . a meticulously researched book. --The Seattle Times

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