Plateau Indian Ways with Words: The Rhetorical Tradition of the Tribes of the Inland Pacific NorthwestIn Plateau IndianWays with Words, Barbara Monroe makes visible the arts of persuasion of the Plateau Indians, whose ancestral grounds stretch from the Cascades to the Rockies, revealing a chain of cultural identification that predates the colonial period and continues to this day. Culling from hundreds of student writings from grades 7 12 in two reservation schools, Monroe finds that students employ the same persuasive techniques as their forebears,