Lisa Blee: 2 books
Framing Chief Leschi
Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
In 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians. A party of militiamen traveling through Nisqually country was ambushed, and two men were shot from behind and fatally wounded. After the war, Chief Leschi, a Nisqually leader, was found guilty of murder...
Monumental Mobility
The Memory Work of Massasoit
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's...