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Readings for Sunday (Day 1)

1. Arnold Pacey, Meaning in Technology

2. Bruce Sinclair, "Local History and National Culture"

3. David E. Nye, American Technological Sublime

4. Paul Josephson, Industrialized Nature

Readings for Monday (Day 2)

Readings for Monday (Day 2)

1. Selections from William Lang and Robert Carriker, eds. Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River

  • Preface
  • Eugene S. Hunn's essay
  • James P. Ronda's essay
  • Lillian Shlissel's essay
  • Richard W. Etulain's essay
  • Conclusion

2. Allen Pinkham, Salmon and His People

Readings for Tuesday (Day 3)

1.The Upper Columbia River Book of Legends

  • #22 "Coyote and the Water or Rain" (pg. 46)
  • #23 "Introduction of Salmon" (pg. 47)
  • #28 "Coyote Introduces Salmon" (pg. 70)
  • #31 "Rattlesnake and Salmon" (pg. 82)
  • #35 "How Coyote Broke the Salmon Dam" (pg. 95)
  • #49 "Kettle River Gorge "Pinched Land" (pg. 147)
  • #53 "Legend of Kettle Falls" (pg. 153).

2. David Chance, People of the Falls (suggested) 

3. Paul Kane, Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America 

4. Listen to oral histories from the Bureau of Reclamation (transcripts of recordings available as well)

Readings for Wednesday (Day 4) 

1. Richard White, Organic Machine

(Participants should provide this selection for themselves. To find this selection near you for free, search in the WorldCat database here.) 

2. Benedict Colombi & James F. Brooks, Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon Across the North Pacific

3. Benedict Colombi, "Salmon Migrations, Nez Perce Nationalism, and the Global Economy"

4. Franklin Roosevelt, "Address to the Third World Conference" (Sept. 11, 1936) 

5. Harry Truman, "Address at the Dedication of the Grand Coulee Dam" (May 11, 1950)

6. David E. Lilienthal, TVA: Democracy on the March

  • Preface
  • Ch. 1 (pg. 1)
  • Ch. 2 (pg. 8)
  • Ch. 6 (pg. 46)
  • Ch. 7 (pg. 58)
  • Ch. 9 (pg. 75)
  • Ch. 19 (pg. 203)
  • Ch. 20 (pg. 217)

8. Nard Jones, Still to the West

Readings for Thursday (Day 5)

1. The Upper Columbia River Book of Legends

2. David Martin, "Austere Beauty: The Art of Z. Vanessa Helder" (Image)

3. Paul Pitzer, Harnessing a Dream: Grand Coulee Dam.  

(Participants should provide this selection for themselves. To find this selection near you for free, search in the WorldCat database here.) 

Readings for Friday (Day 6)

1. Senate Hearing, "To Provide for Equitable Compensation of the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation in Settlement of Claims of the Tribe Concerning the Contributions of the Tribe in the Production of Hydropower by Grand Coulee Dam"

2. Public Law 116-100 (2019)

3. Hill, Margo, “The River Gives Us Our Way of Life”