Katie Gale

A Coast Salish Woman's Life on Oyster Bay

Llyn De Danaan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2019
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
9781496215116 (ISBN)

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A gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outline of a woman begins to emerge and with her the world she inhabited, so rich in tradition and shaken by violent change. Katie Kettle Gale was born into a Salish community in Puget Sound in the 1850s, just as settlers were migrating into what would become Washington State. With her people forced out of their traditional hunting and fishing grounds into ill-provisioned island camps and reservations, Katie Gale sought her fortune in Oyster Bay. In that early outpost of multiculturalism-where Native Americans and immigrants from the eastern United States, Europe, and Asia vied for economic, social, political, and legal power-a woman like Gale could make her way.
As LLyn De Danaan mines the historical record, we begin to see Gale, a strong-willed Native woman who cofounded a successful oyster business, then won the legal rights from her Euro-American husband, a man with whom she had raised children but who ultimately made her life unbearable. Steeped in sadness-with a lost home and a broken marriage, children dying in their teens, and tuberculosis claiming her at forty-three-Katie Gale’s story is also one of remarkable pluck, a tale of hard work and ingenuity, gritty initiative and bad luck that is, ultimately, essentially American.

LLyn De Danaan is a writer and an anthropologist. She contributed to the book Vashon Island Archaeology: A View from Burton Acres Shell Midden, and her articles have appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, and Oregon Historical Quarterly.

List of Illustrations

1. My Lodestone

2. First Salmon

3. Where You Come From

4. Indian Policy during Katie Gale's Time

5. Sometimes I See a Canoe

6. Oyster Bay

7. The Duties of a Woman

8. "Picking Grounds" and the Making of Community

9. The People in Her World

10. Travels

11. Katie Gale's Early Life

12. The Kettle Connection

13. No Crops of Any Consequence

14. Relationships

15. Joseph Gale Was an Enterprising Man

16. The Marks upon Her Body

17. Katie Gale Goes to Court

18. Turn Around

19. Joseph's Complaints

20. The Oyster Bay School

21. Katie Gale Died under a Full Moon

22. A "Broad and Liberal Man" Meets His Death

23. The End of an Era

24. Winter Sister

Postscript

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Notes

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2019
Zusatzinfo	11 photographs, 2 illustrations, 1 map, 1 chronology
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781496215116 / 9781496215116
Zustand	Neuware