Framing Chief Leschi Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice

Name: Framing Chief Leschi Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice
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ISBN: 9781469612843

ISBN-10: 1469612844

ISBN-13: 9781469612843

Edition: 2014

Authors: Lisa Blee

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In 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians. A party of militiamen traveling through Nisqually country was ambushed, and two men were shot from behind and fatally wounded. After the war, Chief Leschi, a Nisqually leader, was found guilty of murder by a jury of settlers and hanged in the territory's first judicial execution. But some 150 years later, in 2004, the Historical Court of Justice, a symbolic tribunal that convened in a Tacoma museum, reexamined Leschi's murder conviction and posthumously exonerated him. In Framing Chief Leschi, Lisa Blee uses this fascinating case to uncover the powerful, lasting implications of the United…

Book details

Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/17/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.198

Lisa Blee is assistant professor of history at Wake Forest University.