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Cáw Pawá Láakni / They Are not Forgotten

Sahaptian Place Names Atlas of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla

Author: Eugene S. Hunn, E. Thomas Morning Owl, Jennifer Karson Engum and Phillip E. Cash Cash   Series: Cáw Pawá Láakni / They Are not Forgotten

Cáw Pawá Láakni / They Are not Forgotten
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Presents a compelling account of interactions between a homeland and its people

Draws from the knowledge of Native and non-Native elders and scholars to present an account of interactions between a homeland and its people. This title also presents descriptions of 400 place names. It paints a picture of a way of life that provides context for interpreting pre-contact communities.

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Presents a compelling account of interactions between a homeland and its people

Draws from the knowledge of Native and non-Native elders and scholars to present an account of interactions between a homeland and its people. This title also presents descriptions of 400 place names. It paints a picture of a way of life that provides context for interpreting pre-contact communities.

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Caw Pawa Laakni / They Are Not Forgotten is a book like none other. This ethnogeographic atlas of Native place names presents a compelling account of interactions between a homeland and its people. A project of the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute at the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation - composed of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Tribes in eastern Oregon - Caw Pawa Laakni documents and describes more than four hundred place names. The full-color, detailed maps and the narrative that introduces and supports them paint a picture of a way of life. This meticulous assemblage of memory and meaning echoes cultural and geographical information that has all but disappeared from common knowledge.

To create this historical and cultural atlas of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla homeland, which spans the Columbia River and its tributaries from southeastern Washington to northeastern Oregon, ethnographic, traditional, and institutional knowledge was gathered together and incorporated into a GIS database to produce customized maps that present this knowledge. Many of the accounts are from the individuals who traveled on horseback, lived in and saw these places, and possessed knowledge that can no longer be replicated. In presenting these place-names, the Tribes strive to ensure the vitality of this communal knowledge into the future.

In Caw Pawa Laakni, places named in Indian languages are juxtaposed with sites that are central to the colonial period in the West, such as those described by the Lewis and Clark Expedition and those given to fur-trading posts, missions, and places on the Oregon Trail. The atlas adds a needed and vivid Native perspective to the written history and geography of Oregon and the West.

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Critic Reviews

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Quagmire offers a neat and fresh storyline, explaining that nation-builders failed to understand the serpentine watercourses and landscapes of the Mekong Delta. . . . Biggs shines a light on the everyday struggles of famers and migrants. . .

--Geoffrey Cain "Asian Affairs" (1/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)

[A] much-needed perspective on human efforts over time to shape this amphibious land/waterscape. . . . Biggs is clearly a major talent, who has written a path-breaking book that enables us to see, experience, and interpret the delta anew.

--Peter A. Coclanis "Journal of Contemporary Asia"

Biggs has authored an exciting work that clearly breaks new ground. I have little doubt that the book will be well received by multiple audiences.

--Shawn McHale "Asian Studies Review"

Biggs's command of the sources, both Vietnamese and Western, is impressive, and his book will interest historians of the Vietnam War as background information. Otherwise, it is an important contribution to Vietnam history and geography. Summing up: Highly recommended.

-- "Choice" (1/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)

Blending disciplinary perspectives from history, anthropology, and geography, Biggs approaches the Mekong Delta as a landscape--as things on the land, as people, institutions, discourses, artifacts, metaphors, and eco-logics--with a particularly unstable morphology.

--Michael Kantor "H-HISTGEOG" (1/1/2013 12:00:00 AM)

I learned that it is not a linear development how people use the environment or how the environment affects people; rather it is a dynamic equilibrium between humans and environment, and it is that interaction which shapes nation-building.

--Ang Cheng Guan "Journal of American-East Asian Relations"

Impressively written and well-researched.

--Michitake Aso "Journal of Asian Studies"

This book is a major achievement that fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century Vietnamese history. Its deftly written chapters, simultaneously expansive in their concerns yet full of nuance and telling narrative detail, will become the new starting point for further research on the history of southern Vietnam.

--Mark Philip Bradley "American Historical Review" (1/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)

This work is an original and innovative approach to the contemporary history of Viet Nam. . . . I can recommend this book for graduate students, teachers of colonial and postcolonial Viet Nam, as well as anyone interested in the nexus of environment, modernization, and development.

--Pierre Brocheux "Environmental History"

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About the Author

Eugene S. Hunn is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Washington; E. Thomas Morning Owl is Umatilla master speaker for the CTUIR Language Program; Phillip E. Cash Cash is a PhD candidate in anthropology and linguistics at the University of Arizona; Jennifer Karson Engum is anthropologist / ethnographer for the CTUIR Cultural Resources Protection Program.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Washington Press
Published
1st December 2014
Pages
272
ISBN
9780295990262

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