Description
Book SynopsisOffers an innovative reinterpretation of relations between Native Americans and Christian settlers on the Columbia Plateau. This book provides a novel and insightful rendering of the cultural understandings that underwrote the mid-nineteenth-century transformation of life on the Plateau.
Trade Review"The author deftly weaves materials drawn from a wide variety of disciplines to create a tapestry of tragic events born of millenarian visions. The writing is cogent, clear, and graceful."
* Journal of American History *
"[Miller] has produced a work that is a provocative revisionist assessment of the remarkably parallel worlds of Indians and whites on the Columbia Plateau. . . . Miller’s work is tightly crafted and a source of inspiration for readers seeking explanation rather than just description of past events."
* Oregon Historical Quarterly *
"Miller’s revisionist proposal deserves attention for its erudition and ingenuity . . . and as a challenge to reassess one’s own reading of this complex juncture of historical and anthropological evidence."
* Western Historical Quarterly *
Table of ContentsForeword to the 2003 Edition, by Chris Friday
Preface to the 2003 Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Plateau World
Chapter 2. The Eighteenth-Century Crisis
Chapter 3. The Plateau Prophecy
Chapter 4. The Prophecy Unfolds
Chapter 5. The White Prophecy
Chapter 6. The Prophets Meet
Chapter 7. The Converging Millennia
Chapter 8. The World Will Fall to Pieces
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
