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Book SynopsisTrade Review"He treats two significant but often neglected themes with great clarity: first, the status of off-reservation Indian communities . . . and second, the related and important topics of racial categorization and communal identity building in these off-reservation areas."
-- Brian Gillis * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *
"The book is an engaging account of the history of Columbia River Indians and their determination to maintain control of their identity though confronted by overwhelming obstacles. Summing up: Highly recommended."
* Choice *
"Shadow Tribe takes us into the heart of the legal and cultural conundrums stalking Columbia River Indians, and the result is a subtle, empathetic portrait of people struggling to harmonize nature, tradition, and community in a time and place where nothing is neat and clean."
* Montana: The Magazine of Western History *
"An engaging and compelling narrative, Shadow Tribe, engages legal, cultural, and political history as well as religion, colonization and resistance, and the sociology of identity formation. By complicating the 'narrative of confinement and isolation' that has dominated popular understandings and representations of Native American life, Fisher makes a thoughtful and informative addition to the long history of Indian Removal and Native American cultural persistence."
* Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources *
"Fischer's history is meticulous and nuanced, fully acknowledging the complex social and political currents within and around these 'renegade' Indian communities…. Fischer combines the skills and perspectives of a historian and an anthropologist. As a historian, he extracts surprising details from archival documents… Fischer also has ferreted out oral histories recorded by individual Columbia River Indians telling their stories in their own words, making this history more ethnographic, more faithful to all those caught up in this history."
* Oregon Historical Quarterly *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. People of the River
2. Making Treaties, Making Tribes
3. They Mean to Be Indian Always
4. Places of Persistence
5. Spaces of Resistance
6. Home Folk
7. Submergence and Resurgence
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
