Tears of Internment: The Indian History of Fox Island and the Puget Sound Indian War

by Cecelia Svinth Carpenter

102 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Joanne Rixon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Meticulously sourced from primary documents, Carpenter preserved an important part of Northwest history. I was never taught about the Puget Sound Indian War in school, much less the internment of Nisqually and Puyallup people and their allies in terrible conditions in the concentration camp on Fox Island. The most horrifying detail I learned here: the bounty on any indigenous person that could be collected by any white settler who killed them and brought the body to the US Army, whether that indigenous person was involved in violence or was just walking by the river. As a beneficiary of those white settlers' land grab, it's important to know how we got here. We can't change the past but we can't live honestly now unless we're honest about it.