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In defense of Wyam : Native-White alliances & the struggle for Celilo Village / Katrine Barber.

Barber, Katrine, (author.).

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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 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.

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24510. ‡aIn defense of Wyam : ‡bNative-White alliances & the struggle for Celilo Village / ‡cKatrine Barber.
2463 . ‡aNative-White alliances and the struggle for Celilo Village
264 1. ‡aSeattle : ‡bCenter for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, ‡c[2018]
300 . ‡axii, 294 pages : ‡billustrations, map ; ‡c22 cm.
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4901 . ‡aEmil and Kathleen Sick series in Western history and biography
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 . ‡aWhen 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.
520 . ‡aIn 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.
60010. ‡aMcKeown, Martha Ferguson, ‡d1903-1974.
60010. ‡aThompson, Flora Cushinway, ‡d1893-1978.
61020. ‡aCelilo Falls Indian Relocation Project ‡xPolitical aspects.
60017. ‡aMcKeown, Martha Ferguson, ‡d1903-1974. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst00459809
61027. ‡aCelilo Falls Indian Relocation Project. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst00695477
650 7. ‡aWyam Indians. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01181754
650 0. ‡aIndians of North America ‡xLand tenure ‡zOregon ‡zCelilo.
650 0. ‡aIndians of North America ‡zOregon ‡zCelilo ‡xGovernment relations.
650 0. ‡aIndians of North America ‡xRelocation ‡zOregon ‡zCelilo.
650 0. ‡aWomen ‡zOregon ‡zCelilo ‡vBiography.
650 0. ‡aWyam Indians ‡vBiography.
650 0. ‡aWhites ‡zColumbia River Valley ‡xRelations with Indians.
651 0. ‡aCelilo (Or.) ‡xHistory.
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650 7. ‡aWomen. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01176568
651 7. ‡aOregon ‡zCelilo. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01268456
651 7. ‡aUnited States ‡zColumbia River Valley. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01273964
655 7. ‡aBiography. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01423686
655 7. ‡aHistory. ‡2fast ‡0(OCoLC)fst01411628
77608. ‡iOnline version: ‡aBarber, Katrine. ‡tIn defense of Wyam. ‡dSeattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, [2018] ‡z9780295743592 ‡w(DLC) 2018002203
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