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Part of a new wave of historical scholarship that shows Native American identities to be socially constructed, layered, and contested rather than fixed, singular, and unchanging

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. People of the River

2. Making Treaties, Making Tribes

3. They Mean to Be Indian Always

4. Places of Persistence

5. Spaces of Resistance

6. Home Folk

7. Submergence and Resurgence

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

"Andrew Fisher has written a superb book that tells a story of near-forgotten Indians who refused to move to the reservations and continued to live a traditional life along their beloved Columbia River. The dramatic story of their survival from the nineteenth deep into the twentieth centuries is a moving narrative that is both authentic and colorful." Clifford Trafzer, University of California Riverside "Shadow Tribe focuses on Indian communities that remained and evolved within important historic areas not on the reservations, in which the communities' complicated relationship with the Indian peoples on the reservations is as much a part of the story as the engagement with non-Indian society outside of the reservations." John Shurts, author of Indian Reserved Water Rights