{"id":57053,"date":"2018-11-18T22:59:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T22:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57053"},"modified":"2018-11-18T22:59:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T22:59:56","slug":"peace-weavers-uniting-the-salish-coast-through-cross-cultural-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57053","title":{"rendered":"Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast through Cross-Cultural Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wsupress.wsu.edu\/product\/peace-weavers-copy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast through Cross-Cultural Marriages<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wsupress.wsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington State University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2017<br \/>\n290 pages<br \/>\nIllustrations \/ maps \/ notes \/ bibliography \/ index<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-87422-346-0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/candace.wellman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Candace Wellman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wsupress.wsu.edu\/product\/peace-weavers-copy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.wp.wsu.edu\/uploads\/sites\/1175\/2017\/04\/9780874223460.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peace-weaver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peace-weaving<\/a> marriages between <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salish_peoples\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salish<\/a> families and pioneer men played a crucial role in mid-1800s regional settlement. Author Candace Wellman illuminates this hidden history and shatters stereotypes surrounding these relationships. The four exceptional women she profiles left a lasting legacy in their <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puget_Sound\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Puget Sound<\/a> communities.<\/p>\n<p>Strategic cross-cultural marriages between Coast and Interior Salish families and pioneer men played a crucial role in mid-1800s regional settlement and spared Puget Sound\u2019s upper corner from tragic conflicts. Accounts of the husbands exist in a variety of records, but the native wives\u2019 contributions remained unacknowledged. Combining primary and secondary sources, genealogy, and family memories, author Candace Wellman illuminates this hidden history and shatters stereotypes surrounding these relationships. The four women she profiles exhibited exceptional endurance, strength, and adaptability. They ran successful farms and businesses and acted as cultural interpreters and mediators. Although each story is unique, collectively they and other intermarried individuals helped found Puget Sound communities and left a lasting legacy. They were peace weavers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace-weaving marriages between Salish families and pioneer men played a crucial role in mid-1800s regional settlement. 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