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Author Fisher, Andrew H

Title Shadow tribe : the making of Columbia River Indian identity / Andrew H. Fisher
Published Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, c2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 337 p., [16] p. of plates)
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 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Indians of North America -- Columbia River Valley -- History
Indians of North America -- Columbia River Valley -- Ethnic identity
Indians of North America -- Columbia River Valley -- Government relations
Tribal government -- Columbia River Valley
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
HISTORY -- Native American.
Ethnic relations
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity
Indians of North America -- Government relations
Tribal government
SUBJECT Columbia River Valley -- Ethnic relations
Subject United States -- Columbia River Valley
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021694627
ISBN 9780295801971
0295801972