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Title: The Klickitat Indians by Selma M. Neils ISBN: 0-8323-0446-8 Publisher: Binford & Mort Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: interesting and unique, but could easily have been better
Comment: I write from an interesting position; I used to live in Mrs. Neils' former abode, so I know the country and its people. In fact, I know some of the people she mentions in the book (she misspelled their names). The area's definitely gone downhill since the Indians were pretty well driven out.

The history is reasonably well done. It's unfortunate she couldn't include more of the tribe's legends and cosmology; it's unclear whether she didn't consider it important or (just as likely) there was no one left who remembered most of it. Which points up a quality that overrides the book's flaws: Mrs. Neils is probably the only person who had the ability, contacts and knowledge to write this history. Had she not done so, it would not have been done.

The reader is cautioned that some of the terminology used is a little retro. (It really isn't fashionable to refer to Indians as 'bucks' and 'squaws' these days, though I think for the most part Mrs. Neils tries hard not to be ethnocentric.) Some will find this an adjustment. There are spelling errors. A moderate amount of information, (including a lot of the pictures) also, is recycled from Mrs. Neils' earlier _So This is Klickitat_, which was more about the whites of the area than the Indians.

Recommended for those interested in the history of southern Washington, or of Native peoples' unsensationalized early experiences with whites.