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EH-256812-17Education Programs: Institutes for Higher Education FacultyWhitman CollegeThe Native American West: A Case Study of the Columbia Plateau10/1/2017 - 12/31/2018$138,662.00ChristopherWilliamLeise   Whitman CollegeWalla WallaWA99362-2067USA2017Native American StudiesInstitutes for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs1386620135513.250

A two-week institute for thirty college and university faculty to explore the history of the Columbia Plateau as a case study of indigenous peoples in the American West.

“The Native American West: A Case Study of the Columbia Plateau” explores diverse perspectives on the Indigenous West, the Columbia Plateau, and U.S. history. Just as Plateau peoples’ religion, subsistence practices, politics, and aesthetics were intertwined, this program will employ the interdisciplinary approach required to comprehend Indigenous experiences and perspectives on American history. Framed by scholarly historical works about Native Americans, land, religion, conflict, and ongoing tribal and personal self-determination, the Institute seeks to expand and complicate accepted U.S. history narratives about the West. To offer nuanced interpretations of the Columbia Plateau, we will draw upon both published and oral accounts by members of local Native American communities. This content will reveal spiritual and cultural practices in the eras prior to American and European immigration, and it will contextualize Indigenous and American responses to each encountering the “other.”