University of Washington Press
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Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail
$24.95 Add to cartFormer high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks
- Author: Waterston, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0295747501
- Language: English
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Razor Clams: Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest
$19.95 Add to cartIn this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig,
- Author: Berger, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0295745444
- Language: English
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The Grizzly in the Driveway: The Return of Bears to a Crowded American West
$19.95 Add to cartFour decades ago, the areas around Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks sheltered the last few hundred surviving grizzlies in the Lower 48 states. Protected by the Endangered Species Act, their popu
- Author: Chaney, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0295750979
- Language: English
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Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions
$39.95 Add to cartThe faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were warning that the faking of objects ranging from catlinite pipes
- Author: Berlo, Janet Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0295751363
- Language: English
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The Spokane River
$24.95 Read moreFrom Lake Coeur d’Alene to its confluence with the Columbia, the Spokane River travels 111 miles of varied and often spectacular terrain–rural, urban, in places wild. The river has been a trading and
- Author: Lindholdt, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0295743131
- Language: English
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Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast
$17.95 Add to cartBold, inventive and highly graphic, the indigenous art of the Northwest Coast is distinguished by its sophistication and complexity. It is also composed of basically simple elements, which, guided by
- Author: Stewart, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 01 1979
- ISBN10: 0295956453
- Language: English
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The Flora and Fauna of the Pacific Northwest Coast
$34.95 Add to cartThe Flora and Fauna of the Pacific Northwest Coast is an extensive, easy-to-follow resource guide to the plant and animal life of the vast and diverse bioregion stretching from Juneau, Alaska, south t
- Author: Varner, Collin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0295744642
- Language: English
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Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories
$29.95 Add to cartCentral to the Yakama oral tradition, storytelling enables Tribal Elders to share lessons, values, and customs with younger generations across the Columbia River plateau and the Pacific Northwest. Dra
- Author: Beavert, Virginia R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0295748249
- Language: English
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After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens
$19.95 Read moreA CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE
On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square miles of wh
- Author: Wagner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0295750715
- Language: English
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Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle
$19.95 Read moreSkid Road tells the story of Seattle “from the bottom up,” offering an informal and engaging portrait of the Emerald City’s first century, as seen through the lives of some of its most colorful citiz
- Author: Morgan, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0295743492
- Language: English
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Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle’s urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant laborers who powered the seasonal, extractive
- Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography
- Author: Asaka, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 029575186X
- Language: English
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Treaty Justice: The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights
$34.95 Add to cartIn 1974, Judge George Boldt issued a ruling that affirmed the fishing rights and tribal sovereignty of Native nations in Washington State. The Boldt Decision transformed Indigenous law and resource ma
- Author: Wilkinson, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0295752726
- Language: English
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The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology
$44.95 Read moreThis book is an anthology of some of the greatest stories and storytellers of the American West. Through eight chapters and over 800 pages, 150 writers present scores of myths, stories, poems, essays,
- Author: Kittredge, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: June 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0295969741
- Language: English
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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
$39.95 Add to cartThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily chall
- Author: Rawson, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 029575236X
- Language: English
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A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast
$29.95 Add to cartIn the dense rainforest of the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Somass River (c̓uumaʕas) brings sockeye salmon (miʕaat) into the Nuu-chah-nulth community of Tseshaht. C̓uumaB
- Series: Indigenous Confluences
- Author: Cot?, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0295749520
- Language: English
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Birds of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Guide
$29.95 Add to cartIn this updated edition of their best-selling field guide, renowned bird experts Tom Aversa, Richard Cannings, and Hal Opperman illuminate the key identification traits, vocalizations, seasonal status
- Author: Aversa, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 31 2020
- ISBN10: 0295748052
- Language: English
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The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering Albina and Remaking a City
$24.95 Add to cartPortland, Oregon, though widely regarded as a liberal bastion, also has struggled historically with ethnic diversity; indeed, the 2010 census found it to be “America’s whitest major city.” In early re
- Series: V Ethel Willis White Books
- Author: Burke, Lucas N. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0295742712
- Language: English
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The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartIn her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, i
- Author: Hayes, Ernestine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 11 2019
- ISBN10: 029574572X
- Language: English
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Jesintel: Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders
$34.95 Add to cartDynamic and diverse, Coast Salish culture is bound together by shared values and relations that generate a resilient worldview. Jesintel–“to learn and grow together”–characterizes the spirit of this
- Author: Children of the Setting Sun Productions
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0295748648
- Language: English
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China’s Hidden Century: 1796-1912
$75.00 Read moreCultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated extraordinary resilience in a time of warfare, land shortages, famine, and uprisings. Innovation can be seen in material culture (includ
- Author: Harrison-Hall, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0295751851
- Language: English
