@article{436469,
      recid = {436469},
      author = {Kluger, Richard.},
      title = {The bitter waters of Medicine Creek : a tragic clash  between white and native America /},
      publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xvi, 330 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      year = {2011},
      note = {"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."},
      abstract = {The story of a dramatic confrontation between Native  Americans and white settlers in the newly created  Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857. Washington's first  governor, Isaac Ingalls Stevens, had one goal: to persuade  (peacefully if possible) the Indians of the Puget Sound  region to turn over their ancestral lands to the federal  government. In return, they were to be consigned to  reservations unsuitable for hunting, fishing, or  grazing--their traditional means of sustaining life. The  result was an outbreak of violence and rebellion. Social  historian Richard Kluger recounts the impact of Stevens's  program on the Nisqually tribe. His hasty treaty  negotiations with the Indians, marked by deceit, threat,  and misrepresentation, inflamed his opponents. Chief  Leschi, resolved to save more than a few patches of his  people's lush homelands, unwittingly turned his tribe--and  himself most of all--into victims of the governor's  relentless wrath. The conflict would have echoes far into  the future.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436469},
}