Title In defense of Wyam : native-white alliances and the struggle for Celilo Village / Katrine Barber

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

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Description 1 online resource Series Emil and Kathleen Sick series in Western history and biography Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography. Contents Homelands in transition -- Maintaining/making home -- Growing up -- Converging paths of leadership -- Protecting home -- New narratives in an ancient land -- Aftermath -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of 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 local Native communities anticipating the devastation of their way of life and white settler-descended advocates of the dam envisioning a future of thriving infrastructure and industry. In In Defense of Wyam, having secured access to hundreds of previously unknown and unexamined letters, Katrine Barber revisits the subject of Death of Celilo Falls, her first book. She presents a remarkable alliance across the opposed Native and settler-descended groups, chronicling how the lives of two women leaders converged in a shared struggle to protect the Indian homes of Celilo Village. Flora Thompson, member of the Warm Springs Tribe and wife of the Wyam chief, and Martha McKeown, daughter of an affluent white farming family, became lifelong allies as they worked together to protect Oregon's oldest continuously inhabited site. As a Native woman, Flora wielded significant power within her community yet outside of it was dismissed for her race and her gender. Martha, although privileged due to her settler origins, turned to women's clubs to expand her political authority beyond the conventional domestic sphere. Flora's and Martha's coordinated efforts offer readers meaningful 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject McKeown, Martha Ferguson, 1903-1974. Thompson, Flora Cushinway, 1893-1978. SUBJECT Thompson, Flora Cushinway, 1893-1978 McKeown, Martha Ferguson, 1903-1974 McKeown, Martha Ferguson, 1903-1974 fast McKeown, Martha Ferguson, (1903-1974) ram Thompson, Flora Cushinway, (1893-1978) ram Subject Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project -- Political aspects SUBJECT Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project fast Subject Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Oregon -- Celilo Indians of North America -- Oregon -- Celilo -- Government relations Indians of North America -- Relocation -- Oregon -- Celilo Women -- Oregon -- Celilo -- Biography White people -- Columbia River Valley -- Relations with Indians BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.) Indians of North America -- Government relations Indians of North America -- Land tenure Indians of North America -- Relocation White people -- Relations with Indians Women Relations interethniques -- Oregon (États-Unis) -- 20e siecle. Femmes -- États-Unis -- Oregon (États-Unis) -- 20e siecle -- Biographies. Indiennes d'Amerique -- États-Unis -- Oregon (États-Unis) -- 20e siecle -- Biographies. Indiens d'Amerique -- Relations avec l'État -- États-Unis -- Oregon (États-Unis) -- 20e siecle. Indiens d'Amerique -- Transfert -- États-Unis -- Oregon (États-Unis) -- 20e siecle. Indiens d'Amerique -- Terres -- États-Unis -- Oregon (États-Unis) -- 20e siecle. SUBJECT Wyam Indians -- Biography Celilo (Or.) -- History Subject Oregon -- Celilo United States -- Columbia River Valley Oregon Columbia River Celilo Falls Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2018002203 ISBN 9780295743592 029574359X

Other Titles Native-white alliances and the struggle for Celilo Village

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