Empty Nets, 2nd ed: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River (Culture and Environment in the Pacific West)

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Empty Nets is a disturbing history of broken promises and justice delayed. It chronicles a native people’s fight to handle their livelihood and culture Within the face of an indifferent federal bureaucracy and hostile state governments. In 1939, the U.S. Government promised to supply Columbia River Indians with replacements for traditional fishing sites flooded Within the backwater of the Bonneville Dam. Roberta Ulrich recounts the Indians’ sixtyyear struggle, Within the courts and at the river, to persuade the federal government to keep its promise. From the beginning, the battle was once intertwined with the tribes’ larger effort to assert treatyguaranteed fishing rights. Ulrich deftly examines a host of other issues—including declining salmon runs, industrial development, tribal selfgovernment, and recreation—that changed into enmeshed Within the tribes’ pursuit of justice. Her broad and incisive account ranges from descriptions of the dam’s disastrous effec ts on a salmondependent culture to portraits of the plights of individual Indian families. Descendants of those to whom the promise was once made and ac tivists who have s pent their lives working to acquire the sites reveal the remarkable patience and resilience of the Columbia River Indians. In a new epilogue, Ulrich updates the story of the treaty fishing sites— now all nearly completed—and describes political and cultural developments since 1999, including an incredible new component: the planned reconstruc tion of the Celilo Indian Village. And yet des pite the everchanging circumstances surrounding the treaty sites, the tribes’ objec tive remains the similar. Within the words of Donald Sampson, former executive direc tor of the Columbia River InterTribal Fish Commission, “Our people’s desire is simple—to preserve the fish, to preserve our lifestyle, now and for future generations.”

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