The War on Illahee : Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carpenter, Marc James.

Series:

The Lamar Series in Western History Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2025.

Summary:

How a generation of pioneers and their historians knowingly hid the violent history of Indigenous dispossession in the Pacific Northwest  The small, mostly forgotten wars of the 1850s in the American Pacific Northwest were part of a broader genocidal war--the War on Illahee--to seize Native land for Euro‑Americans.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction and Apologia

1. Settler-Soldiers and Folk Imperialism in the Pacific Northwest

2. Everyday Violence and the Embrace of Genocide in Oregon

3. Dreams of Genocide and Roads to War in Washington Territory

4. Extermination, Incarceration, and the War on Illahee at Its Zenith

5. Theft, Murder, Complicity, and the Oregon Trails of Tears

6. Lynchings Legal and Extralegal in the Pacific Northwest

7. The Snake War as a Continuation of the War on Illahee

8. Settler Colonial Sin-Eaters and the Isolation of Atrocity

9. Indian War Veterans and the Battle for Northwest History

10. Settlers, Scholars, and the Silencing of Pioneer Violence

11. Making Monuments and Forging Memories in the Progressive-Era Pacific Northwest

Conclusion: Erasing Invasion and the War on Illahee

Postscript

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-300-28576-0

9780300285765

OCLC:

1545125833