Chapter 2 - Mothers of the Old World

In its official form, the documentary history of women in British Columbia can be said to begin at Tatoosh Island, where a honey-shouldered wedge of cretaceous sediment tilts out of the storm-tossed entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Bearing the name of an aboriginal chief, this island is the most westerly location in Washington State and therefore a point of pilgrimage for Americans who northwest up the Olympic Peninsula to the territory of the Makah—famous in the past as great whalers,...

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