{"product_id":"above-the-clearwater-living-on-stolen-land","title":"Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land","description":"Like her father before her, Bette Husted grew up on stolen land. The bench land above the Clearwater River in north-central Idaho had been a home for the Nez Perce Indians until the Dawes Act opened their reservation to settlement in 1895. As a child on the family homestead, Husted felt the presence of the Nez Perce: \"But they were always just out of sight, like a smoky shadow behind me that I couldn't quite turn around quickly enough to catch.\"\u003cbr\u003eAbove the Clearwater chronicles her family's history on the land, revealing their joys and sorrows, their triumphs and tragedies. In a series of graceful and moving essays, Husted traces this intimate history, from her Cold War childhood to her struggles as a parent and finally to her life as a woman and teacher in the rural West. Her family's stories echo those of countless other families in the American West: the conflicts with guns, the struggles over land ownership and water rights, the isolation of women, the separations by race and class, the family secrets of mental illness and suicide.\u003cbr\u003eWith a powerful, poetic voice, Husted illuminates the tangled relationship between the history of a particular place and the history of the families who inhabit that place over time. As Above the Clearwater explores one family's search for a home on land taken from its original inhabitants, it quietly asks all readers to examine their own homes in the same light.","brand":"Outliers Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52951709974839,"sku":null,"price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/3633\/0295\/files\/27683073482497.jpg?v=1788661858","url":"https:\/\/outliersbooks.shop\/products\/above-the-clearwater-living-on-stolen-land","provider":"Outliers Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}