Title Death of Celilo Falls / Katrine Barber

Published Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : illustrations, map Series The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography. Contents Village and town : the communities transformed by the Dalles Dam -- A riverscape as contested space -- Debating the dam : "a serious breach of good faith" -- Narratives of progress : development and population growth at the Dalles -- Relocation and the persistence of Celilo Village: "we don't 'come from' anywhere" -- Negotiating values : settlement and final compensation -- Conclusion: Losses Summary For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honoured their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile stretch of the Long Narrows on the Columbia River. Although the Indian community of Celilo Village survives to this day as Oregon's oldest continuously inhabited town, with the construction of the Dalles Dam in 1957, traditional uses of the river were catastrophically interrupted. Most non-Indians celebrated the new generation of hydroelectricity And The easy navigability of the river "highway" created by the dam, but Indians lost a sustaining centre to their lives when Celilo Falls was inundated. Death of Celilo Fallsis a story of ordinary lives in extraordinary circumstances, As neighbouring communities went through tremendous economic, environmental, and cultural change in a brief period. Katrine Barber examines the negotiations and controversies that took place during the planning and construction of the dam And The profound impact the project had on both the Indian community of Celilo Village And The non-Indian town of the Dalles, intertwined with local concerns that affected the entire American West: treaty rights, federal Indian policy, environmental transformation of rivers, And The idea of "progress Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index Notes Print version record Subject Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project -- History SUBJECT Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project fast Subject Indians of North America -- Fishing -- Oregon -- Celilo Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Oregon -- Celilo Indians of North America -- Relocation -- Oregon -- Celilo Salmon fishing -- Oregon -- Celilo Fishery law and legislation -- Oregon -- Celilo Water rights -- Oregon -- Celilo HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Ecology Fishery law and legislation Indians of North America -- Fishing Indians of North America -- Land tenure Indians of North America -- Relocation Salmon fishing Social conditions Water rights SUBJECT Dalles Dam (Or. and Wash.) -- History Dalles Dam (Or. and Wash.) -- Environmental conditions Celilo (Or.) -- Social conditions Celilo (Or.) -- Environmental conditions Dalles (Or.) -- Environmental conditions Columbia River -- Water rights Subject Oregon -- Celilo Oregon -- Dalles United States -- Columbia River United States -- Dalles Dam Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2005017103 ISBN 9780295800929 0295800925 0295985461 9780295985466

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