Leschi: Justice in our Time
HISTORICAL FIGURESCLOSE TIESPRELUDE TO WARINDIAN WARS 1855-56LESCHI ON TRIALLESCHI'S LEGACYTEACHING
 
Prominent individuals caught up in the conflict
Nisqually Indian relationships with the Hudson Bay Trading Company
The circumstances leading to heightened hostilities
The events of the Indian Wars
A Nisqually leader is tried for murder
The legend continues into the present
Teacher's Guide: Lesson Plans, Learning Requirements, etc
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Historical Figures

LESCHI:
  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. The Nisqually, My People. Tacoma: Tahoma Research, 2002
  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. Leschi, Last Chief of the Nisquallies. Tacoma: Tahoma Research, 1998.
  • Leschi, Mary, in an interview with Ezra Meeker. Undated. Collection of the Washington State Historical Society.
  • Richards, Kent. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1993.
  • Newell, Gordon R. Rogues, Buffoons & Statesmen. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1975.
  • Eckrom, J. A. Remembered Drums: A History of the Puget Sound Indian War. Walla Walla, WA: Pioneer Press Books, 1989.
  • Meeker, Ezra. The Tragedy of Leschi. Everett, WA: The Printers, 1980.
  • Kunsch, Kelly. The Trials of Leschi, Nisqually Chief. Unpublished article. Spring 2004.
ISAAC STEVENS:
  • Buerge, David M. "Big Little Man: Isaac Stevens (1818-1861)," Washingtonians: A biographical Portrait of the State. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1988.
  • Nicandri, David L. Northwest Chiefs: Gustav Sohon's View of the 1855 Stevens Treaty Councils. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 1986.
  • Richards, Kent D. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1993.
QUIEMUTH
  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. The Nisqually, My People. Tacoma: Tahoma Research, 2002.
  • Eckrom, J. A. Remembered Drums: A History of the Puget Sound Indian War. Walla Walla, WA: Pioneer Press Books, 1989.
  • Longmire, James. "James Longmire, Pioneer: Interesting Story of His Experience in Hunting Buffalo Coming Across the Plains." The Oregon Trail. Idaho State University. September 17, 2004.
  • Newell, Gordon R. Rogues, Buffoons & Statesmen. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1975.
  • "Thurston County Profile." Thurston Regional Planning Council. September 20, 2004.
YELM JIM (WA HE LUT)
  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. The Nisqually, My People. Tacoma: Tahoma Research, 2002.
  • Cynthia Iyall, Leschi descendant in an interview with Melissa Parr, 20 September 2004.
  • Meeker, Ezra. The Tragedy of Leschi. Everett, WA: The Printers, 1980.
  • Newell, Gordon R. Rogues, Buffoons & Statesmen. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1975.
  • Wa he lut Indian School. 20 September 2004.
  • Wickersham, James. "Is it Mount Tacoma or Rainier?" Proceedings of the Tacoma Academy of Sciences. Tacoma: News Publishing Company, 1893.
SLUGGIA
  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. Tears of Internment: The Indian History of Fox Island and the Puget Sound Indian War. Tacoma: Tahoma Research Service, 1996.
  • Cynthia Iyall, Leschi descendant, in an interview with Melissa Parr, Washington State Historical Society curator. September 14, 2004.
  • Meeker, Ezra. The Tragedy of Leschi. Everett, WA: The Printers, 1980.
  • Stevens, Isaac I. Letter to W. B. Gosnell, Esq. February 27, 1857. Frederick Collection of Western Americana, Shelton, WA.
  • Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Frank's Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties and the Indian Way. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
LIEUTENANT AUGUSTUS KAUTZ
  • Hemphill, Major General John A. and Robert C. Cumbow. West Pointers and Early Washington: The Contributions of U.S. Military Academy Graduates to the Development of the Washington Territory, from the Oregon Trail to the Civil War, 1834-1862. Seattle: The West Point Society of Puget Sound, Inc., 1992.
  • Eckrom, J. A. Remembered Drums: A History of the Puget Sound Indian War. Walla Walla, WA: Pioneer Press Books, 1989.
  • Meeker, Ezra. Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound, The Tragedy of Leschi. Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Co., 1905.
COLONEL SILAS CASEY
  • Hemphill, Major General John A. and Robert C. Cumbow. West Pointers and Early Washington: The Contributions of U.S. Military Academy Graduates to the Development of the Washington Territory, from the Oregon Trail to the Civil War, 1834-1862. Seattle: The West Point Society of Puget Sound, Inc., 1992.
GENERAL JOHN WOOL
  • Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett. "Major-General John Ellis Wool" History of Rensselaer Co., New York. Rensselaer County GenWeb. December 7, 2004.
  • Richards, Kent. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1993.
  • Wool, John Ellis. Letter to John B. Cunningham, Esq. Frederick Collection of Western Americana, April 4, 1856.
COLONEL GEORGE WRIGHT
  • Hemphill, Major General John A. and Robert C. Cumbow. West Pointers and Early Washington: The Contributions of U.S. Military Academy Graduates to the Development of the Washington Territory, from the Oregon Trail to the Civil War, 1834-1862. Seattle: The West Point Society of Puget Sound, Inc., 1992.

Prelude to War

THE MURDER OF A.J. BOLON
  • Bischoff, William N. We Were Not Summer Soldiers: The Indian War Diary of Plympton J. Kelly 1855-1856. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 1976.
  • McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil. The Tragedy of Wahk-shum: The Death of Andrew J. Bolon, Yakima Indian Agent, As Told by Su-el-lil, Eyewitness. Issaquah, WA: Great Eagle Publishing, 1994.
  • Richards, Kent. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1993.

Indian Wars 155-56

THE GROUPS CAUGHT UP IN THE WARS
  • Haeberlin, Hermann and Erna Gunther. The Indians of Puget Sound. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1930.
  • Langellier, John P. Bluecoats: The U.S. Army in the West, 1848-1897. Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1995.
  • Mahon, John K. History of the Militia and the National Guard. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1983.
  • Richards, Kent. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1993.
TIMELINE OF THE CONFLICT


Leschi on Trial

  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. The Nisqually, My People. Tacoma: Tahoma Research, 2002.
  • Eckrom, J. A. Remembered Drums: A History of the Puget Sound Indian War. Walla Walla, WA: Pioneer Press Books, 1989.
  • Cynthia Iyall, Leschi descendant, in an interview with Melissa Parr, Washington State Historical Society curator. September 14, 2004.
  • Judson, Pheobe Goodell. A Pioneer's Search for an Ideal Home. Bellingham, WA: Union Printing, Binding and Stationery Company, 1925.
  • Longmire, James. "James Longmire, Pioneer: Interesting Story of His Experience in Hunting Buffalo Coming Across the Plains." The Oregon Trail. Idaho State University. September 17, 2004.
  • Meeker, Ezra. The Tragedy of Leschi. Everett, WA: The Printers, 1980.
  • Newell, Gordon R. Rogues, Buffoons & Statesmen. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1975.

Leschi's Legacy

  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. Leschi, Last Chief of the Nisquallies. Last chapter: The Legacy of Leschi. Tacoma: Tahoma Research, 1998.

 
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