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Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman's Life On Oyster Bay

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Product Code: 9781496215116
ISBN13: 9781496215116
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Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman's Life On Oyster Bay

$19.95
$18.14
Sale 9%
 
A gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outline of a woman begins to emerge and with her the world she inhabited, so rich in tradition and shaken by violent change. Katie Kettle Gale was born into a Salish community in Puget Sound in the 1850s, just as settlers were migrating into what would become Washington State. With her people forced out of their traditional hunting and fishing grounds into ill-provisioned island camps and reservations, Katie Gale sought her fortune in Oyster Bay. In that early outpost of multiculturalism?where Native Americans and immigrants from the eastern United States, Europe, and Asia vied for economic, social, political, and legal power?a woman like Gale could make her way. As LLyn De Danaan mines the historical record, we begin to see Gale, a strong-willed Native woman who cofounded a successful oyster business, then won the legal rights from her Euro-American husband, a man with whom she had raised children but who ultimately made her life unbearable. Steeped in sadness?with a lost home and a broken marriage, children dying in their teens, and tuberculosis claiming her at forty-three?Katie Gale?s story is also one of remarkable pluck, a tale of hard work and ingenuity, gritty initiative and bad luck that is, ultimately, essentially American.



Author: LLyn De Danaan
Publisher: Bison Books
Publication Date: Sep 01, 2019
Number of Pages: 336 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1496215117
ISBN-13: 9781496215116
 

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