| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Esther Ross, Stillaguamish Champion. By Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown. (Nor-man: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. xxiii + 312 pp. Illustrations, notes, maps, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

The Stillaguamish River flows west from Washington's Cascade Mountains to enter Puget Sound fifty miles north of Seattle. The names Stoh-luk whampsh (river people) refer to one of several small bands living along this stream before Europeans arrived. In the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliot, these river Indians were assigned to a consolidated Tulalip Reservation. Most refused to go; instead they scattered and assimilated. 1

Esther Ross, a quarter-Stillaguamish born in California, made it her life work after moving to the Pacific Northwest to reestablish the Stillaguamish as a people and to gain federal recognition for them as a tribe. When she began, they numbered twenty-nine individuals; at the time of her death there were 160, although by then she insisted the true count was merely one-third of that number. Esther Ross spent the final years of her turbulent career striving to reduce tribal membership. . . .

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