A review by neoteotihuacan
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place by Coll Thrush

5.0

This is exceptional and necessary. Native Seattle explores the idea that Native America had been and still is an active participant in America's urban landscape. Of course, you might say... why wouldn't this be the case? But the assumption that Native Nations were a mode of the past and that they were mutually exclusive to America's new Euro-based cities, destined to vanish away, is so ingrained as an element of racism in America's place-story as to be taken as fact.

Native Seattle uses the Emerald City as a case study for an academic category of study that, by all fairness, should exist more robustly than it does. What happened, and is happening, in Seattle and the rest of urban America is more surprising and richer than you imagined. Read this book.