New to Town: Books About Seattle That Everyone Should Read

Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
By Coll Thrush
(University of Washington Press, 2008)
It's Coll Thrush's claim that Seattle visualizes Natives more than any other major American city—from the wildly displaced Alaskan totem pole in Pioneer Square to those many, many manhole covers under your feet as you walk throughout downtown, all bearing Native designs.
But the city has visualized Natives as convenient fictions: romantic and disappearing, exotic and othered, comba