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Breaking Ground – The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse–whit–zen Village: Breaking Ground

Autor Lynda V. Mapes, Frances Charles
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mar 2009
In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in the region. Yet the state continued its project, disturbing hundreds of burials and unearthing more than 10,000 artifacts at Tse-whit-zen village, the heart of the longburied homeland of the Klallam people.Excitement at the archaeological find of a generation gave way to anguish as tribal members working alongside state construction workers encountered more and more human remains, including many intact burials. Finally, tribal members said the words that stopped the project: “Enough is enough.”Soon after, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe chairwoman Frances Charles asked the state to walk away from more than $70 million in public money already spent on the project and find a new site. The state, in an unprecedented and controversial decision that reverberated around the nation, agreed.In search of the story behind the story, Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes spent more than a year interviewing tribal members, archaeologists, historians, city and state officials, and local residents and businessleaders. Her account begins with the history of Tse-whit-zen village, and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century impacts of contact, forced assimilation, and industrialization. She then engages all the voices involved in the dry dock controversy to explore how the site was chosen, and how the decisions were madefirst to proceed and then to abandon the project, as well as the aftermath and implications of those controversial choices.This beautifully crafted and compassionate account, illustrated with more than 90 photographs illuminates the collective amnesia that led to the choice of the Port Angeles construction site. “You have to know your past in order to build your future,” Charles says, recounting the words of tribal elders. Breaking Ground takes that teaching to heart, demonstrating that the lessons of Tse-whit-zen are teachings from which we all may benefit. Lynda V. Mapes is an award-winning journalist with a twenty-year career in newspaper reporting, much of it with the Seattle Times. She is the author of Washington: The Spirit of the Land.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295988788
ISBN-10: 0295988789
Pagini: 270
Ilustrații: 92 colour illustrations, 2 maps
Dimensiuni: 203 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press
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Recenzii

“Compelling, moving, inspirational, and profound. This is a captivating human interest story brought to life by a fascinating historical subplot, juxtaposed with a modern tragedy.” – CHiXapkaid (Michael Pavel), Skokomish, Traditional Bearer of Southern Puget Salish cultures“A wonderful project ... both because of the author’s passion and accessible style and her attention to critical issues of ethics and relationship-building. A significant contribution to the region and to scholarship more broadly.” – Coll Thrush, author of Native Seattle

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Cuprins

Foreword: Lessons from Tse-whit-zen / Frances Charles
Acknowledgments
Introduction: America Is Indian Country

I Tse-whit-zen
1 Buried Past Comes Alive
2 Abundance
3 Calamity

II Amnesia
4 Conquering the Last Frontier
5 The Big Mill
6 Collective Amnesia
7 This Ground Speaks

III Enough Is Enough
8 Walking Together
9 Walking Away
10 We Were Here-We Are Still Here

Epilogue: Out of the Water, Singing

Glossary
Note on Sources
Notes
Index


Descriere

Illuminates the collective amnesia that allowed the state of Washington to continue construction atop the discovered Indian village and burial ground