-Should be read by all who are not satisfied with the status quo in education.-
--Teachers College Record

This book patiently and persuasively asks us to rethink before we redesign' schools, to question many of our deeply ingrained beliefs about learning and schooling, and to move beyond those which no longer meet the test of common sense. It mercifully gives us no ready-to-implement school reform blueprint but rather the necessary design of how to think well about learning and teaching and schooling.
?Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools,...

This history of the Nez Perce War was written in 1878 79 by Duncan McDonald, a relative of Chief Looking Glass and the son of a Hudson s Bay Company fur trader and a Nez Perce Indian woman. McDonald spent most of his life on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana.


McDonald wrote the history based on interviews and family sources. In 1878 he traveled to Canada to interview Nez Perce chief White Bird and learn his side of the story. Remarkably, the history was published in a Deer Lodge, Montana, newspaper only a year or two after the war ended.


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Duncan McDonald (1849 1937) led a remarkable life as an entrepreneur, tribal leader, historian, and cultural broker on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. The mixed-blood son of a Hudson s Bay Company fur trader and a Nez Perce Indian woman, Duncan accompanied the Pend d Oreille Indians on a buffalo hunt and horse-stealing expedition to the Montana plains during the early 1870s. During the late nineteenth centuryhe was put in charge of Fort Connah, the Hudson s Bay Company post on the Flathead Indian Reservation, and worked as an independent trader across the northern Rocky...