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Book SynopsisIn the Pacific Northwest, the river of dominance is the Columbia, and its history is the history of the region. In this book, historians and anthropologists consider a range of topics about the river, from Indian rock art, and ethnobotany on the Columbia to literary and family history, and the creation of an engineered river.
Table of ContentsA Resurgent Columbia River: An Introduction
What Ever Happened to the First Peoples of the Columbia?
"Dr. McKay's Chinook Address May 11 1892": A Commemoration in Chinook Jargon of the First Columbia River Centennial
Riverplaces as Sacred Geography: The Pictographs and Petroglyphs of the Mid-Columbia River
On the Columbia: The Ruling Presence of This Place
"This perilous situation betwee hope and dispair": Meetings along the Great River of the West
"They have no father, and they will not mind me": Families and the River
Changing Cultural Inventions of the Columbia
What Has Happened to the Columbia? A Great River's Fate in the 20th Century
Contributors
Index
