Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau
Subtitle: Smohalla and Skolaskin (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780806134307
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Indigenous peoples; History; History: American; History - General History; Washington state; Native American
First sentence: In the eighteenth and, particularly, the nineteenth century the forceful dilution of Native American cultures by the influx of Euro-Americans in the Pacific Northwest encouraged native prophet-leaders who advocated maintaining, restoring, or changing the traditional lifeways.