Religious Freedom and Indian Rights
Religious Freedom and Indian Rights

Author: Carolyn Nestor Long

Publisher: Landmark Law Cases and American Society

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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"The Supreme Court's controversial decision in Oregon v. Smith sharply departed from previous expansive readings of the First Amendment's religious freedom clause and ignited a firestorm of protest from legal scholars, religious groups, legislators, and Native Americans. A major event in Native American history, the case attracted widespread support for the Indian cause from a diverse array of religious groups eager to protect their own religious freedom and led to an intense tug-of-war between the Court and Congress. Carolyn Long provides the first book-length analysis of Smith and shows shy it continues to resonate so deeply in the American psyche."--Back cover.

Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest

Author: Ella E. Clark

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0520350960

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This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each group of stories is prefaced by a brief factual account of Indian beliefs and of storytelling customs. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest is a treasure, still in print after fifty years.

The Bridge of the Gods
The Bridge of the Gods

Author: Frederic Homer Balch

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-09-10

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781726499323

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The Bridge of the Gods by Frederic Homer Balch This tale of the Indians of the far West has fairly earned its lasting popularity, not only by the intense interest of the story, but by its faithful delineations of Indian character.

The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850-1980
The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850-1980

Author: E. A. Schwartz

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780806129068

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From 1855 to 1856 in western Oregon, the Native peoples along the Rogue River outmaneuvered and repeatedly drove off white opponents. In The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850–1980, historian E. A. Schwartz explores the tribal groups' resilience not only during this war but also in every period of federal Indian policy that followed. Schwartz's work examines Oregon Indian people's survival during American expansion as they coped with each federal initiative, from reservation policies in the nineteenth century through termination and restoration in the twentieth. While their resilience facilitated their success in adjusting to white society, it also made the people known today as the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians susceptible to federal termination programs in the 1970s—efforts that would have dissolved their communities and given their resources to non-Indians. Drawing on a range of federal documents and anthropological sources, Schwartz explores both the history of Native peoples of western Oregon and U.S. Indian policy and its effects.

Oregon Indians (Paperback)
Oregon Indians (Paperback)

Author: Carole Marsh

Publisher: Gallopade International

Published: 2004-04

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780635023186

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Associates each letter of the alphabet with several bits of information concerning the Indians of Oregon. Includes activities.

The Cayuse Indians
The Cayuse Indians

Author: Robert H. Ruby

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780806137001

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In this book, Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown tell the story of the Cayuse people, from their early years through the nineteenth century, when the tribe was forced to move to a reservation. First published in 1972, this expanded edition is published in 2005 in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the treaty between the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Confederated Tribes and the U.S. government on June 9, 1855, as well as the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark’s visit to the tribal homeland in 1805 and 1806. Volume 120 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series