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Examines the controversies and repercussions of constructing a dam at a traditional Native American fishing and trading site

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Dam Dedications

1. Village and Town: The Communities Transformed by The Dalles Dam

2. A Riverscape as Contexted Space

3. Debating the Drum: "A Serious Breach of Good Faith"

4. Narratives of Progress: Development and Population Growth at The Dalles

5. Relocation and the Persistence of Celilo Village: "We Don't 'Come From' Anywhere"

6. Negotiating Values: Settlement and Final Compensation

Conclusion: Losses

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Katrine Barber is assistant professor of history at Portland State University and an associate at the Center for Columbia River History.

Reviews

"Creatively conceived and carefully argued, Barber's study providesimportant insights to a story that, while set in the Pacific Northwest on the Columbia River, has much larger relevance to the American West as a whole and to modern U.S. social history, Cold War historiography, federal Indian policy in the mid-twentieth century, and recent Native American history".-- Peter Boag, author of Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon