Description: Katie Gale : A Coast Salish Woman's Life on Oyster Bay, Hardcover by De Danaan, Llyn, ISBN 0803237871, ISBN-13 9780803237872, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Katie Gale : a Coast Salish Woman's Life on Oyster Bay
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 1.2 in
Topic: General, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa), Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Women's Studies, Native American
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Author: Llyn De Danaan
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
