Ancestral Places
Ancestral Places explores the deep connections that ancestral Kānaka (Native Hawaiians) enjoyed with their environment. It honors the moʻolelo (historical accounts) of the ancestral places...
To Win the Indian Heart
Since 1879, Indian children from all regions of the United States have entered federal boarding schools—institutions designed to assimilate them into mainstream society. Chemawa Indian...
Gathering Moss
Winner of the 2005 John Burroughs Medal Award for Natural History Writing Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but...
A Gathering of Stones
Drawing on her wide-ranging travels, from the Canadian Arctic to the Bío-Bío River in southern Chile to the deserts of the American Southwest, Carol Ann...
At the Hearth of the Crossed Races
Despite the force of Oregon’s founding mythology, the Willamette Valley was not an empty Eden awaiting settlement by hardy American pioneers. Rather, it was, as...
Ethnobotany of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians
Myrtlewood is most often thought of as beautiful wood for woodworking, but to Native people on the southern Oregon coast it was an important source...
Nehalem Tillamook Tales
(Told by Clara Pearson, recorded by Elizabeth Derr Jacobs, and edited by Melville Jacobs.) A collection of 60 lively, entertaining, and memorable Native American stories...
Whistlepunks and Geoducks
Dusting off his tape recorder for this companion volume to his popular River Pigs and Cayuses, Ron Strickland focuses on Washington, his adopted home. In...