Teaching Oregon Native Languages
In a world where over half of the remaining 6000 languages will most likely disappear by the end of the century, attention has finally begun...
To Harvest, To Hunt
To Harvest, To Hunt reveals how diverse peoples have valued and used natural resources throughout the history of the American West. Drawing on family letters...
Renewing Salmon Nation's Food Traditions
Among all the "food nations" of North America, ranging from Clambake Nation to Chile Pepper Nation, Salmon Nation is the richest in mushrooms, berries, wild...
Oregon Indians
In this deeply researched volume, Stephen Dow Beckham brings together commentary by Native Americans about the events affecting their lives in Oregon. Now available in...
The Sandal and the Cave
Luther Cressman's 1938 discovery of a 9,000-year-old sandal in Fort Rock Cave revolutionized accepted theories of western prehistory. The recovery of the woven sagebrush-bark sandal...
Klamath Heartlands
Klamath Heartlands introduces the unique-in-the-nation plan by the Klamath Tribes of southern Oregon to restore the "remembered forest" of their former reservation, an area that...
The Nehalem Tillamook
The first book-length ethnography of any Western Oregon native group, The Nehalem Tillamook fills an important gap in what was previously known about southern Northwest...
Gathering Moss
Winner of the 2005 John Burroughs Medal Award for Natural History Writing Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but...