Sea Is My Country
Subtitle: The Maritime World of the Makahs
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780300209907
Subjects: Indians of north america, northwest, pacific
Description: For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group identity. Unlike most other indigenous tribes whose lives are tied to lands, the Makah people have long placed marine space at the center of their culture, finding in their own waters the physical and spiritual resources to support themselves. This book is the first to explore the history and identity of the Makahs from the arrival of maritime fur-traders in the eighteenth century through the intervening centuries and to the present day.--Provided by publisher