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"Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." -Seattle, Chief of Suquamish and Duwamish tribes (19th Century)Tribes of the Extreme Northwest, and, Tribes of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon (1877) by William Dall and George Gibbs, is the first volume of a nine-part series entitled Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). In this first volume, two prominent nineteenth-century naturalists provide an overview of the Alaskan and Northwestern tribes, detail on tribal vocabularies, and information about relationships and succession within the tribes. This book offers a critical contribution to the history of Native Americans and is a must-read for anthropologists and students of Native American history.
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Tribes of the Extreme Northwest, and Tribes of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon, George Gibbs, William Healey Dall
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- Title
- Tribes of the Extreme Northwest, and Tribes of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon
- Language
- English
- Authors
- George Gibbs, William Healey Dall
- Publisher
- Cosimo, Inc.
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN10
- 1646796292
- ISBN13
- 9781646796298
- Series
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- "Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." -Seattle, Chief of Suquamish and Duwamish tribes (19th Century)Tribes of the Extreme Northwest, and, Tribes of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon (1877) by William Dall and George Gibbs, is the first volume of a nine-part series entitled Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). In this first volume, two prominent nineteenth-century naturalists provide an overview of the Alaskan and Northwestern tribes, detail on tribal vocabularies, and information about relationships and succession within the tribes. This book offers a critical contribution to the history of Native Americans and is a must-read for anthropologists and students of Native American history.