The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America
By Richard Kluger.
Description
The nearly 400-yearconfrontation between the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere andthe white settlers from Europe was marked from first to last by thenewcomers' conviction that they were entitled - by cultural superiority, moral enlightenment, and God's grace - to displace the primitiveinhabitants and make the land their own. Among the last places in North Americawhere this stark racial collision played itself out was the bountifulPuget Sound region in what was then known as the Washington Territory in the northwestern corner of the United States. There, thanks to moderate c...
ISBN(s)
0307268896, 9780307268891
