Reflecting an enormous amount of research and a mastery of the huge and scattered literature of primary documents - journals, diaries, government reports, and so on - dealing with a multitude of time periods and geographic areas from the Northwest Pacific Coast to the Missouri River, this book brings together in a wondrously organized fashion much that heretofore has been related only in a fractionated and unconnected manner.

The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many recent political, economic, and cultural developments...