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[Katie Gale]is history written by an anthropologist about a personal interest in the area where she lives. This has both good and bad points. De Danaan's personal interest in the character of Katie Gale is evident, but there is only a bit of real historical data about her, so much of the book is historical detail about other people and places who Gale "would have", or "must have" or probably knew and interacted with. For the first half of the book, this gets tedious, especially for the reader who does not know the territory or the anthropological conventions of linguistic forms of Native American names.
De Danaan wants to make the point that Katie Gale got a raw deal both as a Native American in the time of European-American settlement and establishment of reservations (mostly late 1800s) and as a woman in the same Eurocentric culture and times. She nonetheless manages to be successful in business if not in her personal life, and was a respected member of her community. De Danaan makes this point repeatedly, and with excellent documentation.
The author's teaching style extends to a need to explain almost everything, but I wonder of most readers really need to be told that kerosene lamps and wood stoves are a lot of work and sometimes dangerous, with the same detail provided for oyster farming techniques which are much less universal.
For someone interested in general history of the Southern Puget Sound area (Now known as the Salish Sea, we are told) this book is a trove of detail and sources. For many general readers, the lists of products sold at the general store with prices may be more than we need to set the stage for the personal story.
None of the detail is inappropriate, but good editing might have trimmed it to make the points without hammering them.
However the story of Katie Gale is one that deserves telling and gives a fresh perspective to our understanding of the time and place - a good addition to the historic record.
I received this book through the Library Thing Early Reviewers Program in exchange for the promise of a review.
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Helenoel | Hi ha 9 ressenyes més | Jun 26, 2014 |
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I don't think I've ever read a history book by an anthropologist before, and I have to say that I liked it. De Danaan has definitely meticulously researched her subject matter, but she also takes some well-reasoned leaps of faith as she describes the life of Katie Gale, an Indian Woman, who married a European-American settler, on Oyster Bay, not too far from Olympia in the late 1800s. As an East Coast gal, I'm not as familiar with the history of the Pacific Northwest, so this was an interesting, leisurely read for me.… (més)
 
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cransell | Hi ha 9 ressenyes més | May 22, 2014 |
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"Katie Gale - A Coast Salish Women's Life on Oyster Bay" by LLyn De Danaan. (Early reviewer) This book is obviously a labor of love. The author is an anthropologist and the subject of her book is a native American character from the past who lived near her own home on the Southern Puget Sound region of Washington State. It is clear Ms. De Danaan is fully engrossed in this story. The level of research that she brought to the story is impressive indeed. I am also a resident in the Puget Sound and fond of History in general and American History in particular. I should love this book and in an odd way I do love this book but not like I would have expected when I started. I enjoyed the picture that she painted of the life on Oyster Bay in the late 19th century and the tension that she exposed between the ancient residents of the region and the interlopers from the east. But I wanted to get to know Katie Gale and I felt that she was lost among the scores of colorful characters that populated the book and presumably the world that she lived in. To be fair, there isn't now much left of Katie Gale for the author to draw on and it was just long enough ago that there is really nobody left to ask but I selfishly still wanted to know more. Luckily there was so much rich detail about the people and the life they lived that I was still drawn into the world of Oyster Bay and if, as the author implied early on, the life of Katie Gale could be reflected off of the lives of those around her that we do have information about then I suppose that I did get to know her a little. The place names and locations were a little confusing at times so It helped a lot to be familiar with the area. I was a little surprised by the level of cultural mixing so soon after the European arrival in the area. This was apparently a short lived phenomena but I don't think it is well known.… (més)
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pamur | Hi ha 9 ressenyes més | Jan 7, 2014 |
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I am over 100 pages in and still know very little about Katie Gale, the woman for whom the book is named. I have been given so much information about the history of Puget Sound and the Indians of the area and the ways that they were taken advantage of but I still couldn't tell you much about it. This book suffers from way, WAY too much information of little interest and a real lack of organization. I have given it a noble try but I am at the point where I no longer care. I will not be finishing this book.… (més)
 
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shakenbake212 | Hi ha 9 ressenyes més | Dec 11, 2013 |

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