Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place, 2nd Edition - by Coll Thrush

Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place, 2nd Edition
by Coll Thrush
Published by University of Washington Press, Seattle
ISBN: 978-0-295-74134-5
This updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement to recognize Seattle's Native past into a broader context. Native Seattle focuses on the experiences of local Indigenous communities on whose land Seattle grew, accounts of Native migrants to the city, and the development of a multi-tribal urban community, as well as on the role Native Americans have played in the narrative of Seattle.
"Native Seattle offers a dynamic new model for writing urban and Indian histories together. Thrush successfully challenges narratives of progress in U.S. history that imply that modernity is predicated on the decline of Native people. . . . By demonstrating how white place-stories involving the disappearing Indians have shaped our accounts, he successfully works to restore both the deeper history of urban places as well as the influence of Native people in the subsequent development of cities." - Journal of American History