In Tulalip, From My Heart, Harriette Shelton Dover describes her life
on the Tulalip Reservation and recounts the myriad problems tribes faced
after resettlement. Born in 1904, Dover grew up hearing the elders of
her tribe tell of the hardships involved in moving from their villages
to the reservation on Tulalip Bay: inadequate supplies of food and
water, harsh economic conditions, and religious persecution outlawing
potlatch houses and other ceremonial practices.
Dover herself spent ten traumatic months every year in an Indian
boarding school, an experience that developed her political
consciousness and keen sense of justice. The first Indian woman to serve
on the Tulalip board of directors, Dover describes her experiences in
her own personal, often fierce style, revealing her tribe's powerful
ties and enduring loyalty to land now occupied by others.