Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity

Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia River Indians — the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington. Largely overlooked in traditional accounts of tribal dispossession and confinement, their story illuminates the persistence of off-reservation Native communities and the fluidity of their identities over time. Cast in the imperfect light of federal policy and di...