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Title:
Peace weavers : uniting the Salish coast through cross-cultural marriages
Summary:
Throughout the mid-1800s, Coast and Interior Salish families arranged strategic cross-cultural marriages, and these alliances played a crucial role in regional settlement and spared Puget Sound's upper corner from the tragic conflicts other regions experienced. Although accounts of the men exist in a variety of records, the contributions of their native wives remain unacknowledged. Author Candace Wellman hopes to shatter stereotypes surrounding these relationships. The four women profiled--Caroline Davis Kavanaugh (Samish-Swinomish), Mary Fitzhugh Lear Phillips (S'Klallam), Clara Tennant Selhameten (Lummi-Duwamish), and Nellie Carr Lane (Sto:lo)--exhibited exceptional endurance, strength, and adaptability. Remembered as loving mothers and good neighbors, they ran successful farms, nursed and supported family members, served as midwives, and operated profitable businesses. They visited relatives and attended ancestral gatherings, often with their children. Each woman's story is uniquely her own, but together they and other intermarried women left lasting legacies. They were peace weavers.
Contents:
The place, the time, the peoples -- Caroline: the widow who wasn't -- Mary: daughter of the strong people -- Clara: a life in four acts -- Nellie: an American family.
Physical Description:
xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher:
Washington State University Press,
Publication Date:
2017
ISBN:
9780874223460
Publication Information:
Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, 2017.
Call Number:
305.8 WELLMAN
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