We the Diverse People: Cultural Encounters in the Pacific Northwest
Summer Institute Bibliography
Catagorized by Subject
| Juvenile literature |
| Native American-juvenile |
O'Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins. Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
Collins, Ann. The Great Sun Must Die. C.C Publications Inc. 1985.
Root, Phyllis. The Listening Silence. Scholastic Printing, 1992.
Davis, Deborah. The Secret of the Seal. Knopf, 1989.
Roop, Peter and Connie Roop. Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves. Beech Tree, 1992.
McNickle, D'Arcy. Runner in the Sun. University of New Mexico Press, 1954.
Dorris, Micheal. Sees Behind Trees. Hyperion, 1996.
Griese, Arnold. The Way of Our People. Boyds Mills Press, 1975 |
| Lewis and Clark-juvenile |
Meyers, Laurie. Lewis and Clark and Me: a dog's tale. Scholastic. 2002.
Morley, Jacqueline. Across America: The story of Lewis and Clark. Franklin Watts, Division of Grolier Publishing, 1998.
Curteich, John Hinde. Lewis and Clark: The adventure into the west. John Hinde Curteich, Inc. 2001.
Sullivan, George. In their own words: Lewis and Clark. Scholastic, 1999.
Sabin, Francene. History Makers: Lewis & Clark. Troll, 1985.
Redmond, Shirley Raye. Lewis and Clark: A Prairie Dog for President. Scholastic, 2003.
Herbert, Janis. Lewis and Clark for Kids: Their Journey of Discovery with 21 Activities. Chicago Review Press, 2000.
Gunderson, Mary. Cooking on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Blue Earth Books/Capstone Press, 2000
Eubank, Patricia Reeder. Seaman's Journal: on the trail with Lewis and Clark. Ideal's Children's Books, 2002.
Smith, Roland. The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe. Harcourt, 1999.
Raphael, Elaine and Don Bolognese. Sacagawea: The Journey West. Part of the Drawing America Series. Scholastic, 1994.
Schanzer, Rosalyn. How We Crossed the West: The adventures of Lewis and Clark. National Geographic Society, 1997.
Fifer, Barbara. Going Along With Lewis and Clark American & World Geographic Publishing/Montana Magazine, 2000.
Lewis and Clark Meet the American Indians As told by Seaman the Dog, www.unitedprinting.com
Kiesling, Sanna Porte. The Lewis and Clark Expedition. Falcon Publishing, 1990.
Scholastic Technology. Lewis and Clark. www.scholastic.com/profbooks/activiesfolders/lexisandclark.htm
Hakim, Joy. A History of the US: From Colonies to Country 1735-1791. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Hakim, Joy. A History of Us: Liberty for All? Oxford University Press, 1993.
Hakim, Joy. A History of Us: The Nation. Oxford University Press, 1993.
A History of Us: Sourcebook and Index: Documents that shaped the American Nation, Book 11. Oxford University Press, 1999. |
Academic Books by Category |
| Chinese American |
Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches you and you fall down. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
Wegars, Priscilla. Polly Bemis: A Chinese American Pioneer. Backeddy Books, 2003.
Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Thousand Pieces of Gold
Priscilla Wegars, Polly Bemis: A Chinese American Pioneer
Liping Zhu, A Chinaman's Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier |
| Native American |
Hunn, Eugene, S. Nch'I-Wana. “The big-river” Mid-Columbia Indians and their land. University of Washington Press, 1990.
Lesley, Craig. River Song. Doubleday, 1989.
Alexandra Harmon, Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound
Peterson, Jacqueline with Laura Peers. Sacred Encounters: Father DeSmet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West. University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Kenneth Thomasma, The Truth about Sacagawea. Jackson, Wyoming: Grandview Publishing Company, 1997.
Gilbert L. Wilson. Waheenee, An Indians Girl's Story told by herself to Gilbert L. Wilson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.
Monte Smith, Traditional Indian Crafts. Ogden, Utah: Eagle's View Publishing Company 706 W. Riverdale Road, Ogden Utah 84405, 1986.
Carolyn Gilman and Mary Jane Schneider. The Way to Independence St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987.
C. Keith Wilbur, M.D. Indian Handcrafts: How to Craft Dozens of Practical Objects Using Traditional Indian Techniques. Guilford, ST: the Globe Pequot Press, 2001.
Yvonne Y. Merrill. Hands-On Rocky Mountains: Art Activities About Anasazi, American Indians, Settlers, Trappers, and Cowboys. KITS Publishing, 2359 E. Bryan Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, 2001. |
| Basque |
| Jeronima Echeverria, Home Away from Home: A History of Basque Boardinghouses |
| Chicano |
Maldonado, Carlos S. and Gilberto Garcia. The Chicano Experience in the Northwest, second edition Kendall Hunt,1995.
Erasmo Gamboa, Mexican Labor and World War II : Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947
--- and Carolyn M. Buan, editors, Nosotros the Hispanic People of Oregon: Essays and Recollections
Carlos S. Maldonado and Gilberto Garcia, The Chicano Experience in the Northwest
Isabel Valle, Fields of Toil: A Migrant Family's Journey |
| Japanese American |
Jopp, Jennifer, ed.. The Japanese American Experience. Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts, Supplemental Series 7.
Stone, Monica. Nisei Daughter. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1953.
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Lauren Kessler, Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family
Linda Tamura, The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley |
| African-American |
Elizabeth McLagan, A Peculiar Paradise : A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940
Quintard Taylor, The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era
---, In search of the racial frontier : African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990
Darrell Millner. "George Bush of Tumwater: Founder of the First American Colony on Puget Sound." Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History. Washington State Historical Society. Winter 1995/95.
Darrell Millner. "The Death of Markus Lopius: Fact or Fantasy? First Documented Presence of a Black Man in Oregon August 16, 1788." Trotter Institute Review: William Monroe Trotter Institute University of Massachusetts at Boston. Summer 1991, 19-22.
Darrell Millner. "York of the Corps of Discovery: Interpretations of York's Character and his Role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition." Oregon Historical Society. Fall 2003, 302-333.
Garraty, John A, and Mark C. Carnes. "George Washington (15 Aug. 1817-26 Aug. 1905) " American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999, 766-67. |
| Lewis and Clark |
| Ronda, James P, Lewis and Clark Among the Indians. University of Nebraska Press, 1984. |
| Northwest |
Armitage, Susan and Elizabeth Jameson. The Women's West. University of Oklahoma Press. 1987.
Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Converting the West: A biography of Narcissa Whitman, University of Oklahoma, 1991.
Wollner, Craig and W. Tracy Dillon. Eds. A Richer Harvest, Oregon State University Press, 1999.
Laurie Mercier and Carole Simon-Smolinski, Idaho's Ethnic Heritage
Sid White and S.E. Solberg, editors, Peoples of Washington: Perspectives in Cultural Diversity
Janet Rasmussen, New Land, New Lives: Scandinavian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest
Carlos Schwantes, The Pacific Northwest (general reference) |
| Migration |
Goetzmann, William H. and Glyndwr Williams. The Atlas of North American Exploration: from the Norse Voyages to the race to the pole. University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
Huunter, Gordan, ed. Immigrant Voices: Twenty-four Narratives on Becoming an American. Signet, 1937. |
| General History |
Linda Levstick and Keith C. Barton, Doing History: Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001. "Diversity in American History."
Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. Chapters 1 and 8.
Rosie Turner-Bisset, "Serving Maids and Literacy: An Approach to Teaching Literacy through History and Music." Reading April 2001. |
| Films |
American Cowboys (early 20th century Pendleton Roundup stars Jackson Sundown and George Fletcher)
And Woman Wove it in a Basket (Klickitat basketweaver Nettie Jackson)
Family Gathering (Lisa Yasui returns to grandparents' Hood River home to piece together family history)
Finding Home in Chinatown (Seattle Chinatown)
Matter of Trust (Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission)
Northwest Black Pioneers
People Today: Closing the Circle (impact of Christian missionaries on the Salish and Couer d'Alene peoples)
River People (David Sohappy and struggles for Indian treaty fishing rights on the Columbia)
Thousand Pieces of Gold (fictionalized account of Chinese American woman, Polly Bemis, in the mining camps of Idaho)
Turbans (cultural conflicts experienced by Asian Indian immigrant family in Astoria in 1918)
Vanport: A Survivor's Tale (Portland student-produced film about African American Vanport survivors)
Work is Our Joy (immigrant families and gillnet fishers on the Lower Columbia River) |
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Washington State University, Vancouver | Center for Columbia River History
Evergreen School District | Klickitat School District | Vancouver School District
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