Author: JESSETT, THOMAS E
Title: THE INDIAN SIDE OF THE WHITMAN MASSACRE
Description: Washington : Ye Galleon Press, 1973.. LIII p.,full-page illus. SOFTCOVER: (Orig. cream card covered sewn booklet with red and black titles. VERY GOOD) ¶ The author attempts to present the Cayuse Indian position in the late autumn of 1847, describing a fictional interview between a Cayuse Indian, Tiloukaikt and his imaginary white trapper friend. Although the interview is fiction, the author very carefully documents his material, giving sources for his information. The portraits of Tomahas and Tiloukaikt - the men responsible for the murder of Dr. Whitman - are from sketches made by Paul Kane in 1847, a Canadian artist who was travelling overland from Fort Vancouver to Eastern Canada. The background story of the Cayuse and Marcus Whitman, a man who did not get along too well even with his fellow missionaries! The Tragedy at Waiilaptu was but a minor incident in the history of Old Oregon county, but it forced a dilatory U.S. government to proved a territorial government for the area. The story became a legend. A very interesting sidelight on the massacre.

Keywords: North America Ethnography Anthropology North American Indians Cultural history art war


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