Volume #8 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Nez Perces, Wallawalla, Umatilla, Cayuse, The Chinookan tribes. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies.

Based on more than 40 years association with Native American weavers, including 16 years in residence on Northwest Indian reservations, Schlick presents the artistic but also utilitarian baskets made by the people of the mid-Columbia River in the context of the lives of the people who created and used them. She also writes authoritatively about the gathering and processing of materials, and basketry techniques. Including 191 illustrations, 56 in color, this lovely volume is both a sourcebook for basket weavers and a reference for scholars, curators, and collectors. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Policy, politics, and administration : prologue to captivity -- Lapwai to the Bear's Paw : the road to surrender -- Fifty days : the Bear's Paw to Fort Leavenworth -- Survival and military jurisdiction at Fort Leavenworth -- Life in the Eeikish Pah, the hot place -- Peace chiefs and diplomats -- Removal to the Oakland subagency : new lives, demographics, and changing intertribal relationships -- Life at the Oakland subagency : challenges and change -- Federal Indian schools and Nimiipuu, Palus, and Cayuse students -- Communities of faith in the Indian territory -- Interactions and life in the Indian territory -- Leaving the Indian territory