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A gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outline of a woman begins to emerge and with her the world she inhabited, so rich in tradition and shaken by violent change. Katie Kettle Gale was born into a Salish community in Puget Sound in the 1850s, just as settlers were migrating into what would become Washington State. With her people forced out of their traditional hunting and fishing grounds into ill-provisioned island camps and reservations, Katie Gale sought her fortune in Oyster Bay. In that early outpost of multiculturalism-where Native Americans and immigrants from the eastern United States, Europe, and Asia vied for economic, social, political, and legal power-a woman like Gale could make her way.
As LLyn De Danaan mines the historical record, we begin to see Gale, a strong-willed Native woman who cofounded a successful oyster business, then won the legal rights from her Euro-American husband, a man with whom she had raised children but who ultimately made her life unbearable. Steeped in sadness-with a lost home and a broken marriage, children dying in their teens, and tuberculosis claiming her at forty-three-Katie Gale's story is also one of remarkable pluck, a tale of hard work and ingenuity, gritty initiative and bad luck that is, ultimately, essentially American.
Contents
List of Illustrations
1. My Lodestone
2. First Salmon
3. Where You Come From
4. Indian Policy during Katie Gale's Time
5. Sometimes I See a Canoe
6. Oyster Bay
7. The Duties of a Woman
8. "Picking Grounds" and the Making of Community
9. The People in Her World
10. Travels
11. Katie Gale's Early Life
12. The Kettle Connection
13. No Crops of Any Consequence
14. Relationships
15. Joseph Gale Was an Enterprising Man
16. The Marks upon Her Body
17. Katie Gale Goes to Court
18. Turn Around
19. Joseph's Complaints
20. The Oyster Bay School
21. Katie Gale Died under a Full Moon
22. A "Broad and Liberal Man" Meets His Death
23. The End of an Era
24. Winter Sister
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
