In defense of Wyam : Native-White alliances & the struggle for Celilo Village / Katrine Barber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barber, Katrine, author.

Series:

Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography

Emil and Kathleen Sick series in Western history and biography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McKeown, Martha Ferguson, 1903-1974.

McKeown, Martha Ferguson.

Thompson, Flora Cushinway, 1893-1978.

Thompson, Flora Cushinway.

Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project--Political aspects.

Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project.

Indians of North America--Land tenure--Oregon--Celilo.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Oregon--Celilo--Government relations.

Indians of North America--Relocation--Oregon--Celilo.

Women--Oregon--Celilo--Biography.

Women.

Wyam Indians--Biography.

Wyam Indians.

White people.

Relations with Indians.

Indians of North America--Relocation.

Indians of North America--Land tenure.

Oregon--Celilo.

White people--Columbia River Valley--Relations with Indians.

Celilo (Or.)--History.

Celilo (Or.).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 294 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Native-White alliances and the struggle for Celilo Village

Place of Publication:

Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, [2018]

Summary:

When the Us Army Corps of Engineers proposed The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social site of immense importance to Native tribes would be changed forever. Controversy surrounded the project, with Native communities anticipating the devastation of their way of life and settler-descended dam advocates envisioning a future of thriving industry. In In D&fense of Wyam, with access to hundreds of previously unknown letters, Katrine Barber revisits the subject of Death of Celilo Falls. She presents a remarkable alliance across the opposed groups, chronicling how Flora Thompson, member of the Warm Springs Tribe and wife of the Wyam chief, and Martha McKcown, daughter of an affluent white farming family, became lifelong allies as they worked to protect Oregon's oldest continuously inhabited site. Their coordinated efforts offer readers insight into a time and place where the rhetoric of Native sovereignty, the aims of environmental movements in the American West, and women's political strategies intersected. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Homelands in Transition 3

2 Maintaining/Making Home 25

3 Growing Up 49

4 Converging Paths of Leadership 89

5 Protecting Home 125

6 New Narratives in an Ancient Land 161

7 Aftermath 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Barber, Katrine. In defense of Wyam.

ISBN:

9780295743578

0295743573

9780295743585

0295743581

OCLC:

1011170913