
Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce
Strangers in the Land of the Nimiipuu
Washington State University Press
Will be published approx. on 15. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
316 pages
978-0-87422-417-7 (ISBN)
Description
Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce is a generous and careful re-evaluation of Lewis and Clark west of the Bitterroot Mountains. An extraordinary new look at their extended visit--approximately four months of daily interchange with a community the white visitors regarded as especially friendly, hospitable, and helpful to their success--the book represents a breakthrough in Lewis and Clark studies. Many incidents suddenly take on a new light when the historical lens is reversed.In 1984, James Ronda's groundbreaking Lewis and Clark Among the Indians looked broadly at the Lewis and Clark expedition from the Native American perspective. Nearly three decades later, Nez Perce historians Allen V. Pinkham and Steven Ross Evans examined the journals of Lewis and Clark with painstaking care to tease out new insights from what Lewis and Clark wrote about their Nez Perce hosts. Pinkham and Evans evaluate both what Lewis and Clark understood and what they misunderstood in the Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) lifeway and political structure. More particularly, they have scoured the journals for clues about how the Nez Perce reacted to the bearded strangers, gathering and putting into print for the first time the stands of a surprisingly rich Nez Perce oral tradition.
The first richly detailed exploration of the relationship between Mr. Jefferson's Corps of Discovery and a single tribe, this volume also serves as a template for a Lewis and Clark expedition tribal history series.
The first richly detailed exploration of the relationship between Mr. Jefferson's Corps of Discovery and a single tribe, this volume also serves as a template for a Lewis and Clark expedition tribal history series.
Reviews / Votes
"From the tiniest details to the widest understanding of events, this book tells the familiar story with a freshness and authenticity that sets it apart from the scores of others before it."--Dr. Elliott West, Professor, University of Arkansas
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pullman, WA
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87422-417-7 (9780874224177)
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Persons
Following a long career in the private sector, Allen V. Pinkham moved back to the Nez Perce Reservation and dedicated himself to serving the public as a story-telling educator-author. He was on the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee, the National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Council, and the Board of Trustees for the National Museum of the American Indian. Steven Ross Evans taught history for thirty-three years at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, and led a parallel life in the construction trade. For the last eleven years he has been researching and writing on the Nez Perce Indians and the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and coauthor of The People: A History of Native America.
Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and coauthor of The People: A History of Native America.
Author
Contributions
Foreword
Preface
Content
Map: The Lewis and Clark ExpeditionTribal Chairman Silas Whitman
Foreword "What Every American School Boy Should Know" by Frederick E. Hoxie
Preface by Clay S. Jenkinson
Introduction
Map: Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce
Chapter 1: A Long Time Ago
Chapter 2: We ya ooyet soyapo (The Coming of the White Man)
Chapter 3: In A Big Hurry
Map: Moments and Incidents
Chapter 4: Down the Koos keihk-keihk (Clearwater)
Chapter 5: Down the Snake
Chapter 6: Down the Columbia
Chapter 7: Twisted Hair's Return Trip
Chapter 8: With the Walla Walla Nation
Chapter 9: On the Clearwater's North Bank Trail
Chapter 10: The Grand Council
Chapter 11: The Long Camp
Map: Ordway Junket
Chapter 12: The Ordway Junket
Chapter 13: Last Days at the Long Camp
Chapter 14: The First Attempt to Cross
Chapter 15: The Second Attempt
Chapter 16: The Nez Perces and Lewis and Clark After 1806
Informants
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Foreword "What Every American School Boy Should Know" by Frederick E. Hoxie
Preface by Clay S. Jenkinson
Introduction
Map: Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce
Chapter 1: A Long Time Ago
Chapter 2: We ya ooyet soyapo (The Coming of the White Man)
Chapter 3: In A Big Hurry
Map: Moments and Incidents
Chapter 4: Down the Koos keihk-keihk (Clearwater)
Chapter 5: Down the Snake
Chapter 6: Down the Columbia
Chapter 7: Twisted Hair's Return Trip
Chapter 8: With the Walla Walla Nation
Chapter 9: On the Clearwater's North Bank Trail
Chapter 10: The Grand Council
Chapter 11: The Long Camp
Map: Ordway Junket
Chapter 12: The Ordway Junket
Chapter 13: Last Days at the Long Camp
Chapter 14: The First Attempt to Cross
Chapter 15: The Second Attempt
Chapter 16: The Nez Perces and Lewis and Clark After 1806
Informants
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Glossary
Index