As Above the Clearwater explores one family's joys and struggles on an Idaho homestead--on land taken from the Nez Perce Indian Reservation as a result of the Dawes Act--it illuminates the tangled relationship between the history of a particular place and the history of the families who inhabit that place over time.
As Above the Clearwater explores one family's joys and struggles on an Idaho homestead--on land taken from the Nez Perce Indian Reservation as a resul...
"Stories can change us," Bette Lynch Husted says in this brave and compelling memoir about her own life as a poor rural girl who became a college teacher and author. As she tells us how she continually confronted unacknowledged borders of class, gender and race, we realize that true stories such as hers have the potential to change all of us. Historian Sue Armitage, coeditor of The Women's West
Lessons from the Borderlands speaks truth. Truth about the working poor, about class in America, about possibilities and barriers in small town culture in the West. In this book I saw myself...
"Stories can change us," Bette Lynch Husted says in this brave and compelling memoir about her own life as a poor rural girl who became a colle...
Annie and her son Riley are devastated by the loss of Riley's father Jack, who has disappeared into an Eastern Oregon wilderness. Together with their Native and non-Native neighbors on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, they uncover the stories that help them solve the mystery of Jack's disappearance as they become part of this community.
Annie and her son Riley are devastated by the loss of Riley's father Jack, who has disappeared into an Eastern Oregon wilderness. Together with their ...
