The Native Races Of The Pacific States Of North America: Wild Tribes - Softcover

Hubert Howe Bancroft

9780461562002: The Native Races Of The Pacific States Of North America: Wild Tribes

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ISBN 10: 0461562006 ISBN 13: 9780461562002

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

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The Native Races Of The Pacific States Of North America: Wild Tribes by Hubert Howe Bancroft. This volume presents a foundational ethnographic survey of inland Northwest Indigenous groups, detailing the Salish, Sahaptin, Shushwap, Nez Perces, Flatheads, Kootenais, Pend D’Oreilles, Okanagans, Yakimas, Kliketats, Walla Walla, and related communities. It distinguishes inland tribes from coastal groups and maps their riverine and interior landscapes (notably the Columbia and Fraser basins). The work covers material culture (dwellings, dress, adornment), subsistence (fish—especially salmon; roots; camas; pine-moss), and seasonal adaptations, as well as hunting, gathering, and mobility, with horses playing a central wealth and transport role for select groups. Social and political organization is explored through war chiefs, councils, slavery practices, and kin-based networks; gender roles assign heavy labor to women and leadership to men, with marriage, kinship, and child-rearing shaping daily life. Health, healing, religion, and ceremonial life are treated in detail, including medicine practices, mourning, and ritual songs. The text also surveys intergroup attitudes, coast–inland distinctions within broader family groupings, and a cataloging of Vancouver Island and Puget Sound populations, situating these cultures within a broader ethnographic program.

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