Unsettled ground : the Whitman Massacre and its shifting legacy in the American West / Cassandra Tate.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Seattle : Sasquatch Books, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: xx, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781632172501
- 163217250X
- Whitman Massacre and its shifting legacy in the American West
- Whitman Massacre, 1847
- Cayuse Indians -- Oregon -- History -- 19th century
- Cayuse Indians -- Washington (State) -- History -- 19th century
- Cayuse Indians -- Missions -- Oregon
- Cayuse Indians -- Missions -- Washington (State)
- Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
- Oregon -- History -- 19th century
- Washington (State) -- History -- 19th century
- Whitman Mission National Historic Site (Wash.)
- Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847 -- Statues
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A highly-readable, myth-busting history of the Whitman Massacre--a pivotal event in the history of the American West--that includes the often-missing Native American point of view.
In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, devout missionaries from upstate New York, established a Presbyterian mission on Cayuse Indian land near what is now the fashionable wine capital of Walla Walla, Washington. Eleven years later, a group of Cayuses killed the Whitmans and eleven others in what became known as the Whitman Massacre. The attack led to a war of retaliation against the Cayuse; the extension of federal control over the present-day states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming; and martyrdom for the Whitmans. Today, however, the Whitmans are more likely to be demonized as colonizers than revered as heroes.
In Unsettled Ground , historian and journalist Cassandra Tate takes a fresh look at the personalities, dynamics, disputes, social pressures, and shifting legacy of a pivotal event in the history of the American West.
"[Tate] tells the Cayuse's side of the story with empathy and clarity . . . a meticulously researched book . " -- The Seattle Times
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Attack -- The Imperial Tribe -- The Missionaries -- Destination Oregon -- Early Years at Waiilatpu -- The Disillusionment Becomes Mutual -- Explosion of Grief and Violence -- Aftermath -- Canonization -- Reinterpreting the Whitman "Tragedy."
"Historian Cassandra Tate proposes to assemble the story of the Whitman Massacre from the many accounts while including the native point of view to provide a greater context to the event"-- Provided by publisher.