Eagle Song: An Indian Saga Based on True Events

by James Houston and James A. Houston

Book Overview

In 1803, a New England trading ship put in at the Nootkan village of the Eagle House on the Canadian Pacific coast. Its purposes were to replenish provisions, barter for valuable sea otter pelts and, incidentally, to obtain sexual services of the young village women. A group of rebellious Indian youths, infuriated by the arrogance and disdain of the white men, carried out a violent plan to massacre the crew and plunder the ship. Surviving the slaughter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151271178
• ISBN13: 9780151271177
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.