The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek

A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America

• Author(s): Richard Kluger,
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Pages: 368
• ISBN_10: 0307388964
  ISBN_13: 9780307388964
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) , History / United States / 19th Century , History / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas ,

Description:... Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Kluger brings to life a bloody clash between Native Americans and white settlers in the 1850s Pacific Northwest. After he was appointed the first governor of the state of Washington, Isaac Ingalls Stevens had one goal: to persuade the Indians of the Puget Sound region to leave their ancestral lands for inhospitable reservations. But Stevens's program--marked by threat and misrepresentation--outraged the Nisqually tribe and its chief, Leschi, sparking the native resistance movement. Tragically, Leschi's resistance unwittingly turned his tribe and himself into victims of the governor's relentless wrath. The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek is a riveting chronicle of how violence and rebellion grew out of frontier oppression and injustice.