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Author Fisher, Andrew H.

Title Shadow tribe : the making of Columbia River Indian identity / Andrew H. Fisher.

Publication Info. Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 337 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- People of the river -- Making treaties, making tribes -- They mean to be Indian always -- Places of persistence -- Spaces of resistance -- Home folk -- Submergence and resurgence.
Summary Based on more than a decade of archival research and conversations with Native people, Andrew Fisher's book traces the waxing and waning of Columbia River Indian identity from the mid-nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. Fisher explains how, despite policies designed to destroy them, the shared experience of being off the reservation and at odds with recognized tribes forged far-flung river communities into a loose confederation called the Columbia River Tribe. Environmental changes and political pressures eroded their autonomy during the second half of the twentieth century, yet many River People continued to honor a common heritage of ancestral connection to the Columbia, resistance to the reservation system, devotion to cultural traditions, and detachment from the institutions of federal control and tribal governance. At times, their independent and uncompromising attitude has challenged the sovereignty of the recognized tribes, earning Columbia River Indians a reputation as radicals and troublemakers even among their own people. --From publisher's description.
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Subject Indians of North America -- Columbia River Valley -- History.
Indians of North America.
History.
Indians of North America -- Columbia River Valley -- Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity.
Indians of North America -- Columbia River Valley -- Government relations.
Tribal government -- Columbia River Valley.
Tribal government.
Columbia River Valley -- Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Fisher, Andrew H. Shadow tribe. Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2010002144
ISBN 9780295801971 (electronic book)
0295801972 (electronic book)
9780295990200 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0295990201 (paperback ; alkaline paper)