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Book Review
Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River.
By Roberta Ulrich. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1999. vii
+ 248 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. $19.95, paper.)
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Inspired by the river itself, historians have created a growing body of scholarship on the Columbia, using the river's history to examine changing human relationships with the environment. Journalist Roberta Ulrich's Empty Nets adds to this literature by emphasizing the experience of the river's Indian communities, whose efforts to maintain traditional lifeways and the salmon on which those practices depend have faced enormous opposition from a bewildering number of directions. |
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