The Burning of Moses Seattle Paperback – November 25, 2025

Moses Seattle’s friends returned to the shack in the woods to collect his corpse. They found him on the gravel floor, still alive. For three days, Chief Seattle’s 4ft tall grandson had survived alone in the cold, with over half his body covered in lethal burns.Quickly rowing him to a nearby navy town for treatment, every door was slammed in their face. Nobody wanted to get involved with what happened at the party the night he was burned.Combining true crime, anthropology, local history, and even a surprising touch of comedy, author David Norman Lewis presents the only book ever written about the Northwest's favorite little person.It is an adventure that will take us from the fading days of magic and reincarnation on the early reservations, to the infamous Indian boarding schools, to the hop fields, to the freak shows, to a deadly party in a shack out in the woods. Read more