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Date Permissions Signed
12-1-2014
Date of Award
2014
Document Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
First Advisor
Friday, Chris, 1959-
Second Advisor
Leonard, Kevin Allen, 1964-
Third Advisor
Seltz, Jennifer
Abstract
Against a teleological narrative of inevitable U.S. hegemony in what is now the southwest corner of Washington State, this work argues that settler colonialism has been a co-creation of local indigenous peoples and settlers that has emerged from the mid-nineteenth century onward through continuous negotiations of power and influence. The uneasy co-existence between metanarratives of U.S. westward expansion and local narratives produced through the colonial encounter give rise to productive contradictions that provide materials to reframe the dominant narratives that continue to naturalize settler colonial power today.
Type
Text
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25710/smcn-s748
Publisher
Western Washington University
OCLC Number
897928331
Subjects – Names (LCNAF)
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862
Subject – LCSH
Cowlitz Indians--Washington (State)--Treaties; Chehalis Indians--Washington (State)--Treaties; Indians of North America--Washington (State)--History; Indians, Treatment of--Washington (State)--History; Whites--Washington (State)--Relations with Indians; Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Washington (State)--History; Land settlement--Washington (State)--History
Geographic Coverage
Washington (State)
Format
application/pdf
Genre/Form
masters theses
Language
English
Rights
Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this thesis for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author's written permission.
Recommended Citation
Jelsing, Kaden M. (Kaden Mark), ""We pay you for your land and stay amongst you folks": settler colonialism and indigenous power in Southwest Washington Territory" (2014). WWU Graduate School Collection. 390.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/390