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Death of Celilo Falls
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Katrine Barber
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honored their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile stretch of the
In Defense of Wyam
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Katrine Barber
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-05 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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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 traditi
River Lost
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Blaine Harden
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-11-04 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Details the destruction of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest by well-intentioned Americans who saw only the benefits of the dam-building, power plant
Nch'i-wána,
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Eugene S. Hunn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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The mighty Columbia River cuts a deep gash through the Miocene basalts of the Columbia Plateau, coursing as well through the lives of the Indians who live along
Irrigated Eden
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Mark Fiege
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-23 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irr