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by Hunn, Eugene S.


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The mighty Columbia River cuts a deep gash through the Miocene basalts of the Columbia Plateau, coursing as well through the lives of the Indians who live along its banks. Known to these people as Nch'i-Wana (the Big River), it forms the spine of their land, the core of their habitat.

At the turn of the century, the Sahaptin speakers of the mid-Columbia lived in an area between Celilo Falls and Priest Rapids in eastern Oregon and Washington. They were hunters and gatherers who survived by virtue of a detailed, encyclopedic knowledge of their environment. Eugene Hunn's authoritative study focuses on Sahaptin ethnobiology and the role of the natural environment in the lives and beliefs of their descendants who live on or near the Yakima, Umatilla, and Warm Springs reservations.

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THE COLUMBIA RIVER-known to the Indian people of its middle course as nci-wana, "the Big River"-cuts a deep gash through the Miocene basalts of the Columbia Plateau.

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This book is about mid-Columbia Indians and their land. The author overturns many of the myths the dominant culture holds about Native Americans and even some misconceptions perpetrated by earlier scholarship in the field.

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  • Title Nch'I-Wana, the Big River Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land
  • Author Hunn, Eugene S.
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 384
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Washington Press, Seattle
  • Date October 1991
  • ISBN 9780295971193
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
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