Spokane Tribe - A River of Promises - Bob Bostwick/Warren Seyler

Warren Seyler
Warren Seyler
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Published 2016-02-21
History of the Spokane Tribe and how the building of Grand Coulee dam changed a 10,000 year old culture based on a free flowing river. Where their culture, traditions, social structure and life evolved. As the United States took their land in the 1930's so the United States and World could benefit, in return receiving $4700.00

The devastation that the Spokane Tribe experienced when the United States Government took the lands agreed to by Chief Lot and President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1881, to build the Grand Coulee Dam, flooding this land to benefit the nation without compensating them as would have been required by law if it was a public project...
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