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The Puyallup of Washingtonessay 1963 • Smith, Marian W. (Marian Wesley)
Southern Coast Salish • North America > Northwest Coast and California
Beginning with a reconstruction of pre-contact life, this document discusses the subsequent processes of acculturation of the Puyallup people. It shows the substantial benefits brought to them by new economic opportunities. The most important was the...The Puyallup-NisquallyBook 1940 • Smith, Marian W. (Marian Wesley)
Southern Coast Salish • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This document reconstructs aspects of Puyallup-Nisqually culture and society based on interviews with informants born shortly after relocation to reservations in 1854, covering not their early experiences but, even more so, the conveyed memories of t...