Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity

Description:

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, their story illuminates the persistence of off-reservation Native communities and the fluidity of their identities over time. --Andrew Fisher is assistant professor of history at the College of William & Mary.

Brief description: Andrew H. Fisher is associate professor of history and director of the environmental science and policy program at the College of William & Mary. He is author of Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity (Washington, 2010).

Review Quotes:

"He treats two significant but often neglected themes with great clarity: first, the status of off-reservation Indian communities . . . and second, the related and important topics of racial categorization and communal identity building in these off-reservation areas."