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Book Review
| Death of Celilo Falls. By Katrine Barber. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xi + 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95, paper.)
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As we acknowledge the bicentennial of Lewis & Clark's expedition to the Pacific, it is appropriate to take stock of the subsequent transformations of the country through which the Corps of Discovery passed. At Celilo Falls, Lewis & Clark encountered Native civilizations of impressive political and economic scope, and it is here that the last two hundred years have left their deepest impression. |
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The larger Columbia River scene has been the subject of a number of fine recent historical, anthropological, and ecological works. Closer to home, Robert Boyd's annotated edition of Henry Perkins's journals (People of the Dalles: the Indians of Wascopam Mission, Lincoln, 1996) and George Aguilar's contemporary Indian perspective (When the River Ran Wild, Seattle, 2005) enhance our understanding of the dramatic cultural transformations at this critical Columbia River passage. |
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