Reviews for Peoples of the Sea Wind: The Native Americans of the Pacific Coast

The average rating for Peoples of the Sea Wind: The Native Americans of the Pacific Coast based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-12-21 00:00:00 Brian Gantwerker Pros: -Does a good job of separating different Pacific Coast Indigenous cultures into groups. -Offers some brief information about each group/culture/tribe. -Quick reading experience. -Bibliography may be able to point you in new directions for further research. Negs: -Sections where oral stories are retold lack any citation, Indigenous voice, etc. -Actual discussion of tribes is cut short, as most of the writing in each section is actually the retelling of an oral story (which could be beneficial depending on your research, but if you were unaware of the large story aspect of this book, it may be disappointing or less-than-helpful to your studies). -In some areas multiple tribes are combined together, then only one tribe is really discussed. This book may be a product of the research era. If you look at the bibliography there are some citations from the 1960s-1970s but then there is a lot of early 1900s citations. Perhaps there was a lag in the research in between. This book is likely part of the American Indian Renaissance and may have been written to begin/start new research on Pacific Northwest communities. While it may be helpful for providing a few sentences of information here and there, and could definitely be used to do so, I'd urge scholars to focus on larger tribally specific studies.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-05-12 00:00:00 Chris Milner This was my second read (the last was years ago now) - and overall I enjoyed it once more. Numerous different topics are touched on in the course of the book. Some of them could have been dealt with in greater detail to my way of thinking. I was left wanting to know more on several occasions. The Introduction looks at what was involved in gathering the source information required to put the novel together. A lot of work! To my way of thinking the last chapter (Law, Order and Politics) doesn't allow the book to end on anything like a high. That alone probably contributed the most to giving me a feeling of being happy to get to the finish. It's probably the most boring twenty pages of the whole book. Shame it was where it was. For someone starting out to explore the stories of the Old West, its characters and its history, 'The American West' would make a good starting place. For that reason I'd recommend it.