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The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek
A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America
By Kluger, Richard
- ISBN
- 978-0-30726-889-1
- Publisher
- Knopf
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Reviewed on January 1, 2011
In 2004, a judicial tribunal led by the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Washington State belatedly reviewed the 1857 case Washington Territory v. Leschi, which unjustly condemned Leschi, a Nisqually chief, to death. Inspired by the tribunal, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kluger (Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris) explores Washington Territ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
