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The riveting tale of a dramatic confrontation between Native People in the usa and white settlers, a engaging discord that unfolded in the recently created Washington Place from 1853 to 1857. When appointed Washington's first governor, Isaac Ingalls Stevens, an ambitious military services man switched politician, possessed one goal: to persuade (peacefully if possible) the Indians of the Puget Audio region to turn over their ancestral lands to the government. In return, these were to be consigned to reservations unsuitable for hunting, fishing, or grazing, their traditional method of sustaining life. The result was an outbreak of violence and rebellion, a tragic episode of frontier oppression and injustice. With his hallmark empathy and scholarly acuity, Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Kluger recounts the impact of Stevens's program on the Nisqually tribe, whose chief, Leschi, sparked the local resistance activity. Stevens was determined to succeed no matter what: his hasty treaty negotiations with the Indians, marked by deceit, threat, and misrepresentation, inflamed his competitors. Leschi, resolved to save lots of lots of patches of his people's lush homelands, unwittingly switched his tribe and, most of all, himself into patients of the governor's relentless wrath. The discord between both of these complicated and powered men and their followers, explosively and enormously at possibilities with one another, was to have echoes significantly into the future. Tightly considered and eloquently written, The Bitter Waters of Medication Creek is a bold and long-overdue clarification of the historical record of American tragedy, showing, through the encounters of one tribe, the history of Local American fighting and injustice.
