The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America

Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Kluger brings to life a bloody clash between Native Americans and white settlers in the 1850s Pacific Northwest. After he was appointed the first governor of the state of Washington, Isaac Ingalls Stevens had one goal: to persuade the Indians of the Puget Sound region to leave their ancestral lands for inhospitable reservations. But Stevens's program—marked by threat and misrepresentation—outraged the Nisqually tribe and its chief, Leschi, sparking the native res…