VANCOUVER,
The talk, “War (and Treaties) are Made to Take Something Not Yours” — words spoken by Yellow Wolf (a nephew of Chief Joseph) after the 1877 War with the U.S. Cavalry — will be in
The presentation will give an overview of all the treaties the
Mallickan, a member of the Nez Perce and Shoshone-Paiute tribes, was educated at the
Her publications include “Nez Perce Nation Divided: Firsthand Accounts of Events Leading to the 1863 Treaty.” She was a team writer for the Nez Perce tribe’s “Treaties: Nez Perce Perspective” and is currently working on “Vol. I of Voices from Nez Perce Country” that will contain Nez Perce stories kept in families over the decades about Lewis and Clark, missionaries and others who came.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Northwest Indian Treaty negotiations between Territorial Gov. Isaac Stevens and Northwest Indian leaders that determined the future of tribal people throughout the Northwest. By the terms of the treaties, thousands of native people ceded millions of acres of their traditional homelands. These same treaties continue to shape life in the
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