Pushed : miners, a merchant, and (maybe) a massacre / Ana Maria Spagna.
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TextPublisher: Salt Lake City : Torrey House Press, 2023Copyright date: 2023Edition: First Torrey House Press editionDescription: 221 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781948814690
- 1948814692
- Miners, a merchant, and (maybe) a massacre
- 1800-1899
- Massacres -- United States -- 19th century
- Chinese Americans -- Crimes against
- Chinese Americans -- History -- 19th century
- Immigrants -- Crimes against
- Indians of North America -- History -- 19th century
- Xenophobia -- United States
- Collective memory -- United States
- Memory -- Social aspects
- HISTORY / United States / General
- Chinese Americans
- Collective memory
- Immigrants -- Crimes against
- Indians of North America
- Massacres
- Memory -- Social aspects
- Xenophobia
- First Nations
- Chelan Falls (Wash.) -- History -- 19th century
- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century
- Pacific Northwest
- United States
- 979.7/59 23
- F899.C515 S63 2023
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214).
Massacre : Version I -- Walla Walla -- Wong Sam -- Ah Chee -- Earthquake -- Chee Saw -- Massacre : Version II -- Xenophobia takes root -- Up the ladder -- Dowsing -- Forget John Wayne -- Whose heritage? -- Back to the store -- Massacre : Version III -- Nearly unanimous -- The problem with make-believe -- Against amnesia -- Bones.
"Amid an alarming rise in xenophobia, Ana Maria Spagna stumbled upon a story: one day in 1875, on a high bluff over the Columbia River, a group of local Indigenous people murdered a large number of Chinese Miners and pushed their bodies off a cliff into the river. The incident was dubbed the Chelan Falls Massacre. Despite having lived in the area for decades, Spagna had never before heard of this event. In Pushed, she sets out to discover what really happened and why. Her eye-opening investigative journey replaces convenient narratives of the American West with nuance and complexity, revealing the danger in forgetting or remembering atrocities when history is murky and asking what allegiance to a place requires"--Back cover.