Reducere. "For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from...
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Reducere. At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their ...
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Reducere. Carl Maxey was, in his own words, "a guy who started from scratch - black scratch." He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Childre...
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Reducere. DescriptionIn the time of Lewis and Clark, wolves were abundant throughout North America from the Arctic regions to Mexico. But man declared war on...
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Reducere. For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honored their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile st...
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Reducere. DescriptionPresents a documented account of WWII Japanese American internment. This work tells the story of administrative callousness and bungling...
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Reducere. Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Din ) pastoralism. The dramatic reduction of livestock ...
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Reducere. Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the perio...
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Reducere. In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, "Aiiieeeee " was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all...
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Reducere. This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Str...
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Reducere. Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional co...
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Reducere. The Rhine River is Europe's most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherland...
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Reducere. Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced int...
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Reducere. "Company town." The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip...
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Reducere. The fabled Great Bear Rainforest stretches up the rugged Pacific coast from northern Vancouver Island to southern Alaska. A longtime resident of th...
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Reducere. Magnificent and haunting, the tall cedar sculptures called totem poles have become a distinctive symbol of the native people of the Northwest Coast...
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Reducere. Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rush ...
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Reducere. DescriptionJournalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978,...
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Reducere. A celebration of western Washington Native language and culture, this book is a completely reformatted and greatly revised and expanded update of T...
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Reducere. Elizabeth Catlett, born in Washington, DC, in 1915, is widely acknowledged as a major presence in African American art, and her work is celebrated ...
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Reducere. Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / HistoryThe plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurídur Einars...
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Reducere. DescriptionThis is a thought-provoking look at Native American stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us abou...
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Reducere. DescriptionJust as a basket's purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave...
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Reducere. Chaos surrounds us. Seemingly random events -- the flapping of a flag, a storm-driven wave striking the shore, a pinball's path -- often appear to ...
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Reducere. Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit is the first publication of Tlingit oratory recorded in performance. It features Tlingit texts with facin...
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Reducere. This eloquent and provocative autobiography, originally published in 1972, records a day by day, sometimes hour by hour, compassionate account of t...
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Reducere. The vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology, which gathers together hi...
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Reducere. The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique forest surrounded by...
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Reducere. Postmaster General James A Farley's famous toast "to the forty-seven states and the soviet of Washington" introduces and sets the tone for this stu...
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Reducere. The hugely popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) is an emblematic figure of Japan's rapidly changing cultural milieu in the early twe...
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Reducere. DescriptionShadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ances...
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Reducere. 2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Awa...
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Reducere. Buddhist temples in Southeast Asia are centers for the preservation of local artistic traditions. Chief among these are manuscripts, a vital source...
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Reducere. DescriptionFor over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountai...
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Reducere. These gripping and powerful prose narratives relate monumental events in the lives of the forebears of Tlingit clans, from the prehistoric migratio...
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