Native Seattle
Coll Thrush wrote Native Seattle: Histories form the Crossing-Over Place to illustrate the changing landscape and history of Seattle through the relationships between white and native people while proving that urban and Native histories are interwoven. Place-stories became important to indigenous people and pioneers who saw the drastic changes of the land. They used place-stories to connect to the past, strengthen their present identities, and to enhance their agendas. Seattle had multiple identities rooted in storytelling and the concept of place; one perspective was that “visitors and residents alike tell and are told stories about the city: that it is built on Indian land, that that land was taken to build a great metropolis, and that such