{"product_id":"coquelle-thompson-athabaskan-witness-volume-lionel-youst-9780806134482","title":"Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness, Volume 243: A Cultural Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoquelle Thompson (1849-1946) was an Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian from along the Oregon coast. During his lifetime, he worked along as farmer, hunting\/fishing guide, teamster, tribal policeman, and served as expert witness on Upper Coquille and reservation life and culture for anthropologists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile captain of the tribal police, Thompson was assigned to investigate the Warm House Dance, the Siletz Indian Reservation version of the famous Ghost Dance. Thompson became a proselytizer for the Warm House Dance, helping to carry its message and performance from Siletz along the Oregon coast to as far south as Coos Bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThompson lived through the conclusion of the Rogue River Indian War of 1855-56 and his tribe's subsequent removal from southern Oregon to the Siletz Reservation. During his lifetime, the Siletz Reservation went from one million acres to seventy-seven individual allotments and four sections of tribal timber. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLionel Youst and William R. Seaburg include an examination of the works of six anthropologists who interviewed Thompson over the years: J. Owen Dorsey, Cora Du Bois, Philip Drucker, Elizabeth Derr Jacobs, Jack Marr, and John Peabody Harrington.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lionel Youst, William R. Seaburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806134488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806134482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.96w x 0.98d","brand":"Lionel Youst","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990373761279,"sku":"9780806134482","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_38f5560e-42d0-401a-85d0-3b7cf3fd4c2c.jpg?v=1683304308","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/coquelle-thompson-athabaskan-witness-volume-lionel-youst-9780806134482","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}