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Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place

by: Coll Thrush

Publisher: University of Washington Press (2007)

$24.95

Staff Pick by comrade: CP

Destroys the idea of the "disappearing Indian" in the city's development, an argument that is racist, paternalist, colonialist, and remarkably similar to Israel's portrayal of of Palestinian land as vacant and unpeopled.