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Robert Boyd

People of The Dalles

The Indians of Wascopam Mission

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People of The Dalles is the story of the Chinookan (Wasco-Wishram) and Sahaptin peoples of The Dalles area of the Columbia River, who encountered the Lewis & Clark expedition in 1805-6. The early history and culture of these communities is reconstructed from the accounts of explorers, travelers, and the early writings of the Methodist missionaries at Wascopam, in particular the papers of Reverend Henry Perkins. Boyd covers early nineteenth century cultural geography, subsistence, economy, social structure, life-cycle rituals, and religion. People of The Dalles also details the changes that occurred to these people's traditional life-ways,… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8032-6232-4
  • EAN: 9780803262324
  • Produktnummer: 1438794
  • Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 414 S.
  • Masse: H581.7 cm x B388.7 cm x D2.4 cm 590 g
  • Abbildungen: 17 illustrations, 4 maps, table, index
  • Gewicht: 590

Über den Autor


Robert Boyd is an adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Portland State University and the author of The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874.

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