INDIAN RESISTANCE AS RACE WAR

Alexandra Harmon asserts that the selfdeprecating rhetoric was expected of well-bred Salish men and that it would have been bad manners to criticize a host's actions at a gathering.3 Chris Friday explains how Northwest headmen understood their participation in councils not as submission, but as an opportunity to consolidate influence in the region, enhance their personal status, secure protections from settler encroachments, and carve out a role in the region's shifting economic system.4 If Kluger had taken scholarship on Indian diplomacy into consideration and delved deeper into the native context offered in ethnohistorical studies, he could have offered a more dynamic story. [...]Harmon analyzed many of the same sources but came to a conclusion that directly refutes Kluger's premise.