Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River (2nd Ed.)
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Code: 02504
Price: $19.95 Author:
Roberta Ulrich ISBN:
0870714694
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$16.96 Features:
Paperback. 2007. 254 pp. Some black and white photos and index. 6 x 9 x 0.5 in.
Empty Nets is a disturbing history of broken promises and justice delayed. It chronicles the Columbia River Indians' fight to maintain their livelihood and culture in the face of an indifferent federal bureaucracy and hostile state governments.
In 1939, the U.S. Government promised to provide Columbia River Indians with replacements for traditional fishing sites flooded in the backwater of the Bonneville Dam. Roberta Ulrich recounts the Indians' decades-long struggle, in the courts and on the river, to persuade the government to keep its promise.