Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest

by Robert Ross McCoy

2006 · Routledge

This work focuses on how whites used Nez Perce history, images, activities and personalities in the production of history, developing a regional identity into a national framework.

Forgotten Voices

by Clifford E. Trafzer, University of California, Riverside, Robert R. McCoy

2009 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Forgotten Voices: Death Records of the Yakama, 1888-1964 begins a discussion of the health of the people on the Yakama Reservation. It focuses on major causes of death during the reservation period so that future scholars may access the data and interpret them, and advance further work in the field.