Home and Homelands Exhibition: Work
A series first published by the National Park Service, in reading order.
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Anna Pike, a Tsimshian woman from Alaska, married a U.S. soldier on San Juan Island in 1861, when such unions were banned. The farmhouse and elm tree she tended still stand, five generations on.
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Celiast Smith lived through the Pacific Northwest's whole 19th-century upheaval — from Lewis and Clark's visit to American settlement. A shellfish basket, a pierced thimble and a wedding plate trace her life.
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In 1829 a missionary spent a night at the Kawaihae home of John Young and Kaʻōanaʻeha. She disliked his Western-style house but found peace in her traditional grass hale, a glimpse of Hawaiian women's power.
