OSU Press at Oregon State University

Native Americans of North America

	Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land By Bette Lynch Husted, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-007-9. Paperback, $18.95. “Like the river of its name, Bette Husted's book runs with clarity and passion. Complex, harsh, and tender, never taking the easy way out, this memoir is beautiful in its honesty. I never read anything truer to the Western land and people.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
	Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813 By Alexander Ross, 2000. Introduction by William G. Robbins Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-528-3. Paperback, $17.95. Adventures of the First Settlers is a vivid account of the John Jacob Astors expedition and its stuggles to establish a successful trading venture.
	Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors: Melville Jacobs on Northwest Indian Myths and Tales Edited by William R. Seaburg and Pamela T. Amoss, 2000. Northwest Reader. ISBN 0-87071-473-2. Paperback, $22.95. A selection of Jacobs's articles and essays on Northwest Indial oral traditions introduce his theory and method of folklore research.
	Chiefs and Chief Traders: Indian Relations at Fort Nez Percés, 1818-1855, Volume 1 By Theodore Stern. 1993. ISBN 0-87071-368-X. Hardcover, $35.95. A groundbreaking study of the early interactions between fur traders and Columbia River Indians, exploring the complex trade network between the two groups.
	Chiefs and Change: Indian Relations at Fort Nez Percés, 1818-1855, Volume 2 By Theodore Stern. 1996. ISBN 0-87071-389-2. Hardcover, $39.95. In volume 2 of his remarkable study of relations between Indians and whites, Stern focuses on the changes the Plateau Indians underwent as increasing numbers of whites entered their world.
	Crater Lake National Park: A History By Rick Harmon 2002. ISBN 0-87071-537-2. Paperback, $19.95. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Crater Lake National Park in May 2002, historian Rick Harmon has written the first comprehensive history of the park and the people and events that created and shaped it.
	Driftwood Valley: A Woman Naturalist in the Northern Wilderness By Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher, Introduction by Wendell Berry. Afterword by Rhoda M. Love, 1999. Northwest Reprints Series. ISBN 0-87071-524-0. Paperback, $18.95. A pioneering woman naturalist recounts a magnificent story of adventure and survival in the wilds of northern British Columbia.
	Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia By Roberta Ulrich, 1999. Culture and Environment in the Pacific West. ISBN 0-87071-469-4. Paperback, $19.95. Empty Nets is a disturbing history of broken promises and justice delayed. It chronicles the Columbia River Indians' fight to maintain their livelihood and culture in the face of an indifferent federal bureaucracy and hostile state governments.
	Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska By Stephen Haycox, 2002. Culture and Environment in the Pacific West. ISBN 0-87071-536-4. Paperback, $21.95. Frigid Embrace examines how the drive for natural resouce extraction has shaped Alaskans' understanding of nature and of Native peoples. It presents for a wide audience an illuminating portrait of modern colonialism
	From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry Edited by Primus St. John and Ingrid Wendt. Oregon Literature Series, volume 4. 1993. ISBN 0-87071-375-2. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-376-0. Paperback, $24.95. This historical anthology opens with Native American texts and ends with a broad sampling of Oregon's finest contemporary poets.
	Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses By Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-499-6. Paperback, $17.95. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us.
	A Guide to Oregon South Coast History: Traveling the Jedediah Smith Trail By Nathan Douthit, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-462-7. Paperback, $22.95. This indispensable guide and reference work opens with an overview of South Coast history, from prehistory to the present. This first section features in-depth looks at the region's native peoples, early exploration, white settlement, Indian-White warfare, the forest industry, transportation, and town development.
	Illahe: The Story of Settlement in the Rogue River Canyon By Kay Atwood, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-539-9. Paperback, $18.95. This volume presents the story of settlement in the most isolated part of southern Oregon's rugged Rogue River Canyon, starting in the 1850s, based on the words of the people who lived there.
	Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest Edited by Robert Boyd, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-459-7. Paperback, $34.95. Instead of discovering a land blanketed by dense forests, early explorers of the Pacific Northwest encountered a varied landscape of open woods, spacious meadows, and extensive prairies. Far from a pristine wilderness, much of the Northwest was actively managed and shaped by the hands of its Native American inhabitants. Their primary tool was fire.
	Klamath Heartlands An Ecotrust Book By Edward C. Wolf, 2004. ISBN 0-9676364-3-4. Paperback, $19.95. Klamath Heartlands introduces the landmark plan by the Klamath Tribes of southern Oregon to restore the "remembered forest" of their former reservation. The Tribes' plan offers a vision of ecological and cultural restoration that will change the way we think about Western forests.
	Listening for Coyote: A Walk across Oregon's Wilderness By William L. Sullivan, 2000. with a new preface by the author. ISBN 0-87071-526-7. Paperback, $18.95. William Sullivan's 1361-mile solo backpacking trek across Oregon's Wilderness Along the way he encountered blizzards, poisonous mushrooms, and marauding bears.
	Many Faces: An Anthology of Oregon Autobiography Edited by Stephen Dow Beckham, 1993. Oregon Literature Series, volume 2. ISBN 0-87071-371-X. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-372-8. Paperback, $24.95. Here forty Oregonians, from the prominent to the plain, tell their own stories.
	Moontrap By Don Berry, 2004. ISBN 0-87071-039-7. Paperback, $18.95. Following Trask in Don Berry's trilogy of novels set in the Oregon Territory, Moontrap, winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for best historical novel, is a book of remarkable beauty and power about a man caught between his vivid past and an uncertain future.
	Nehalem Tillamook Tales By Clara Pearson, Elizabeth Derr Jacobs. Introduction by Jarold Ramsey, 1990. Northwest Reprints series. ISBN 0-87071-502-X. Hardcover, $29.95. ISBN 0-87071-503-8. Paperback, $17.95. One of the most accessible and readable collections of traditional Native literature.
	The Nehalem Tillamook By Elizabeth D. Jacobs, Edited by William Seaburg, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-556-9. Paperback, $21.95. The first book-length ethnography of any Western Oregon native group, The Nehalem Tillamook fills an important gap in what was previously known about southern Northwest Coast native cultures.
	New Era: Reflections on the Human and Natural History of Central Oregon By Jarold Ramsey, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-557-7. Paperback, $14.95. New Era is a graceful and literate collection of personal essays on the human and natural history of the Oregon high desert.
	The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History Edited by Joseph Cone and Sandy Ridlington, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-390-6. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-472-4. Paperback, $24.95. In this unique documentary record of the roots of the region's most divisive issue, knowledgeable observers of salmon history comment on documents they believe most clearly revealed the causes and early warning signs of today's crisis.
	Oregon's Promise: An Interpretive History By David Peterson del Mar, 2003. ISBN 0-87071-558-5. Paperback, $19.95. A concise and compelling general history that explores familiar and neglected people and movements in the state's history, while challenging readers to view Oregon's past, present, and future in a new way.
	The Public Trust and the First Americans Edited by Ruthann Knudson and Bennie C. Keel, 1995. A copublication of the Oregon State University Press and the Center for the Study of the First Americans. ISBN 0-87071-025-7. Paperback, $24.95.
	Requiem for a People: The Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen By Stephen Dow Beckham 1996. Northwest Reprints series. ISBN 0-87071-521-6. Paperback, $16.95. This classic history of the Rogue River Indian wars, now in paper with a new introduction by the author.
	River of Life, Channel of Death By Keith C. Petersen, 2001. ISBN 0-87071-496-1. Paperback, $24.95. In the words of the author, "this book is the story of how people came to settle this region and demand river alterations--and how some eventually came to oppose them. . . . It is also the chronicle, yet unfolding, of the conflict between native wildlife and dams. In microcosm it is, in many ways, the story of the American West."
	Salmon Fishers of the Columbia By Courtland L. Smith. 1979. ISBN 0-87071-313-2. Hardcover, $21.95. A comprehensive historical, social, and economic picture of the Columbia River salmon industry which noted environmental historian Richard White has described as "the best introduction to Columbia River salmon fishing."
	Salmon Nation: People, Fish, and Our Common Home 2nd edition, An Ecotrust Book. Edited by Edward C. Wolf and Seth Zuckerman, 2003. ISBN 0-9676364-1-8. Paperback, $9.95. Salmon Nation leads readers deep into the watersheds of the West Coast in the company of six knowledgeable guides to better understand the most celebrated fish of western North America.
	The Sandal and the Cave: The Indians of Oregon By Luther S. Cressman. 1981. ISBN 0-87071-078-8. Paperback, $9.95 A brief, lucid, and comprehensive introduction to the prehistory of Oregon Indians written by the man whose 1938 discovery of a 9,000-year-old sandal in Fort Rock Cave revolutionized accepted theories of western prehistory.
	The Stories We Tell: An Anthology of Oregon Folk Literature Edited by Suzi Jones and Jarold Ramsey. Oregon Literature Series, volume 5. 1994. ISBN 0-87071-379-5. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-380-9. Paperback, $24.95. These traditional stories, songs, tales, and sayings--from Native American creation myths to spotted owl jokes--reveal the richness of Oregon's oral traditions.
	Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest By Kathie Durbin, 1999. ISBN 0-87071-466-X. Paperback, $19.95. An award-winning journalist reveals the dramatic story of the fight to save America's last great rain forest.
	Uncertain Encounters: Indians and Whites at Peace and War in Southern Oregon, 1820s-1860s By Nathan Douthit, 2002. ISBN 0-87071-549-6. Paperback, $22.95. Uncertain Encounters makes a major contribution to the study of Indian-white relations in the Pacific Northwest by providing a comprehensive view of relations in southern Oregon over a fifty-year period beginning in the fur-trade era and ending with the Rogue River War of 1855-1856 and its aftermath.
	Varieties of Hope: An Anthology of Oregon Prose Edited by Gordon B. Dodds, 1993. Oregon Literature Series, volume 3. ISBN 0-87071-373-6. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-374-4. Paperback, $24.95. This wide-ranging anthology of speeches, essays, and works of biography, history, and journalism, profiles the Oregon experience.
	Wood Works: The Life and Writings of Charles Erskine Scott Wood Edited by Edwin Bingham and Tim Barnes, 1997. ISBN 0-87071-397-3. Hardcover, $29.95. This long-awaited first anthology of C. E. S. Wood's writings includes nearly eighty selections, an extensive biographical introduction, and historic photographs.
	The World Begins Here: An Anthology of Oregon Short Fiction Edited by Glen A. Love, 1993. Oregon Literature Series, volume 1. ISBN 0-87071-369-8. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN 0-87071-370-1. Paperback, $24.95. Thirty-three Oregon stories ranging from a Nez Perce tale to stories by many contemporary writers including Ursula Le Guin, Craig Lesley, Barry Lopez, and Ken Kesey.