Readings Reservation Life

A list of recommended books and articles on the history of Native peoples in Oregon:

• Beal, Merrill D. "I Will Fight No More Forever": Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War. Seattle: University of Washington, 1966.

• Beckham, Stephen Dow. The Indians of Western Oregon: This Land Was Theirs. Coos Bay: Arago Books, 1977.

• Buan, Carolyn M., and Richard Lewis, eds. The First Oregonians: An Illustrated Collection of Essays on Traditional Lifeways, Federal-Indian Relations, and the State’s Native People Today. Portland: Oregon Council for the Humanities, 1991.

• Collins, Cary C. “The Broken Crucible of Assimilation: Forest Grove Indian School and the Origins of Off-Reservation Boarding-School Education in the West.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 101 (2000): 466-507.

• Haynal, Patrick. “Termination and Tribal Survival: The Klamath Tribes of Oregon.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 101 (2000): 270-301.

• Robbins, William G. “The Indian Question in Western Oregon: The Making of a Colonial People.” In Experiences in a Promised Land: Essays in Pacific Northwest History, edited by G. Thomas Edwards and Carlos A. Schwantes. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986.

• Ruby, Robert H., and John A. Brown. Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.

• Schwartz, E.A. The Rogue River War and Its Aftermath, 1850-1980. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

• Stowell, C.D. Faces of a Reservation: A Portrait of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1987.

• Sturtevant, William C., series editor. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 7, Northwest Coast; vol. 11, Great Basin; and vol. 12, Plateau. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1986-1998.

• Zucker, Jeff, Kay Hummel, and Bob Hogfoss. Oregon Indians: Culture, History, and Current Affairs. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1983.