Oregon: Shadow Tribe: The Making Of Columbia River Indian Identity

Oregon: Shadow Tribe: The Making Of Columbia River Indian Identity Andrew H. Fisher   2010   University of Washington Press   The history of Columbia River Indians is the history of identity making. Dynamic, contested, and often contradictory and inchoate, identity is a fluid, continuous process of construction— the point where the contingencies and conflicts of human experience meet the institutional structures through which experience is manifested, defined, and interpreted. In the...

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