List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: American Indian History and the Future
A Short Autobiography
Prologue: The Abundance That Was the Great Northwest
Part 1. The Nineteenth Century and Before
1. Forgotten Genocide
2. The Building of America
3. Centuries of Injustice
4. Reservation Creation
5. After the Treaty
Part 2. The Twentieth Century and After
6. Legal and Land Rights
7. A Shrinking Land Base, Persecution, and Racism
8. Aboriginal Fishermen
9. Break Through Ahistory
Part 3. Oral History and Cultural Teachings
10. Scälla—Of the Killer Whale: A Song of Hope
11. Earth, Our First Teacher
12. Poems by Joseph R. Hillaire and Pauline R. Hillaire
13. History in the Time of the Treaty of Point Elliott: An Oration by Joseph R. Hillaire
Afterword: And to My Father
Appendix 1: Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855
Appendix 2: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007
Appendix 3: Events in U.S. Indian History and Policy, Emphasizing the Point Elliott Treaty Tribes
Notes
Bibliography
Index