Oregon and the collapse of Illahee [electronic resource] : U.S. empire and the transformation of an indigenous world, 1792-1859 / Gray H. Whaley.
Series: First peoples (2010)Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.Description: xi, 303 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780807833674 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807833673 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780807871096 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0807871095 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 979.5004/97 22
- E78.O6 W53 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : historical constructions of Oregon and Illahee -- So many little sovereignties, 1792-1822 -- Disastrous times we had : expansions and epidemic, 1821-1834 -- A vital experimental religion : the Methodist mission colony of lower Oregon, 1834-1844 -- Trophies for God : from mission colony to American colony, 1840-1845 -- The colonization of Illahee, 1843-1851 -- Polaklie Illahee (land of darkness) : identity and genocidal culture in Oregon -- Extermination and empire: money, politics, and the Oregon wars, 1855-1856 -- Conclusion : Illahee, "Indian colonies", and the paternalist state.
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