University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
Shadow Tribe
The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest�s Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington. Largely overlooked in traditional accounts of tribal dispossession...
Breaking Ground
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in the region. Yet the state continued...
Growing Up Brown
Memoirs of a Filipino American
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
"I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference -- my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. It was as a �campo� boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway...
Seeking Refuge
Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Each fall and spring, millions of birds travel the Pacific Flyway, the westernmost of the four major North American bird migration routes. The landscapes they cross vary from wetlands to farmland to concrete, inhabited not only by wildlife but also by farmers, suburban families, and major cities....
Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead
The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation. Over one hundred federally recognized Indian tribes and bands lost their sovereignty...
The Nature of Borders
Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
For centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different effects on the Northwest salmon fishery. Native peoples who fished the Salish Sea--which includes Puget Sound in Washington State, the Strait of Georgia...
Seawomen of Iceland
Survival on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / History
The plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurídur Einarsdóttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing captains, and that she lived from 1777 to 1863.
"Wait," anthropologist and former...
Becoming Citizens
Family Life and the Politics of Disability
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Following the Second World War, a generation of Seattle parents went against conventional medical wisdom and chose to bring up their children with developmental disabilities in the community. This book presents a stunning visual narrative of thirteen of these remarkable families. With a rich array...
Puget's Sound
A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, �the City of Destiny,� and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington�s history took place. Drawing upon original...
Hazel Wolf
Fighting the Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
When Hazel Wolf died, at the age of 101, more than nine hundred of her friends -- from the governor of Washington to union organizers, from birdwatchers to hunters -- crowded Town Hall in Seattle to honor the feisty activist and tell the often outrageous "Hazel stories" that were their common...
Drawing Lines in the Forest
Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Drawing boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double purpose: protection of the land within the boundary and release of the land outside the boundary to resource extraction and other development. In Drawing Lines in the Forest, Kevin R. Marsh discusses the roles played by various groups�the...
by David Biespiel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The formally nuanced and wise epistolary poems in David Biespiel�s new collection are grounded in friendship, camaraderie, and the vulnerability and boldness that defines America.
Roving from the old Confederacy of Biespiel's native South to Portland, Oregon, Charming Gardeners explores the...
Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares
The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Across the inland West, forests that once seemed like paradise have turned into an ecological nightmare. Fires, insect epidemics, and disease now threaten millions of acres of once-bountiful forests. Yet no one can agree what went wrong. Was it too much management�or not enough�that forced the...
Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors
Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives, the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation of British Columbia, shortly followed suit. Neither tribe had exercised their...