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The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs . Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity. By Joshua L. Reid. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. xvi + 400 pp. Illustrations, maps, chart, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.) The Makah Indian Reservation covers less than forty-seven square miles of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Nestled on Cape Flattery, the westernmost tip of the continental United States, this remote strip of coast consists mostly of rocky headlands, dense rainforests, and storm-tossed beaches with limited economic potential. It is, in sum, just the sort of place one would expect the federal government to put an Indian reservation. To focus on such features, however, misses the central fact of Makah identity and the point of Joshua L. Reid’s fascinating book. Tacking away from the land that so dominates our understanding of Native American history, The Sea … Ahffiis2{at}wm.edu
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