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Publisher
Washington State University Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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Northwest Women features concise descriptions of more than 700 books and articles that examine the contributions of Washington and Oregon women -- bringing to light generations of scholarship about celebrated and anonymous women, from Native American basket makers to Japanese-Americans interned during World War II.
Northwest Women was named one of the "Best Bibliographies in History" by the American Library Association.
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Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
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"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' sixty-year struggle, in the courts and on the river, to persuade the government to keep its promise." "Ulrich's broad and incisive account ranges from descriptions of the dam's disastrous effects on a salmon-dependent culture to portraits of the...
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