Tulalip, From My Heart

I'm so glad this exists. Dover lived a long and extraordinary life, from surviving the Tulalip Indian School to participating in the long legal battle to restore salmon fishing rights to the coast Salish tribes. Her attention is sweeping and unsparing: we hear about everything from the "drifting, deep fog or mist" that partially obscures prehistory from modern awareness to the boarding school uniforms made of blue wool serge, "the heaviest, scratchiest material that was ever invented on the earth." The book feels less like a book than the series of conversations that it was, and anyone interested in the history and ongoing issues in the Pacific Northwest would benefit from hearing Dover's story.