READING LIST
Day One (Sunday): "Welcome and Keynote"
- Arnold Pacey, Meaning in Technology (Chapters 5, 6) (pdf)
- Bruce Sinclair, "Local History and National Culture" (pdf)
- David E. Nye, American Technological Sublime (Introduction: "The Sublime") (pdf)
- Paul Josephson, Industrialized Nature (Chapter 1) (pdf)
Day Two (Monday): "Salmon and Folklore in the Columbia River Watershed"
- William Lang and Robert Carriker, eds., Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River (pdf)
- -preface
- -Eugene S. Hunn
- -James P. Ronda
- -Lillian Shlissel
- -Richard W. Etulain
- -William L. Lang, Conclusion
- Landeen and Pinkham, Salmon and his People (pdf)
Day Three (Tuesday): "Kettle Falls - A Central Place of Indigenous Cultures"
- The Upper Columbia River Book of Legends (external link)
- 22. Coyote and the Water or Rain (external link)
- 23. Introduction of Salmon (external link)
- 28. Coyote Introduces Salmon (external link)
- 31. Rattlesnake and Salmon (external link)
- 35. How Coyote Broke the Salmon Dam (external link)
- 49. Kettle River Gorge "Pinched Land" (external link)
- 53. Legend of Kettle Falls (external link)
- David Chance, People of the Falls (suggested) (pdf)
- Paul Kane, Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America (external link)
Day Six (Friday): "Competing Historical Narratives of Grand Coulee"
- Franklin Roosevelt, "Address to the Third World Conference" (September 11, 1936) (external link)
- Harry Truman, "Address at the Dedication of the Grand Coulee Dam" (May 11, 1950) (external link)
- David E. Lilienthal, TVA: Democracy on the March (preface, 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 19, 20) (external link)
- Nard Jones, Still to the West (novel, selected chapters) (pdf)
Additional Recommended Readings:
- The Upper Columbia River Book of Legends (external link)
- XII. The Geography of Memory Recovering Stories of a Landscape's First People (external link)
- X. Native River: The Columbia Remembered (external link)
- David Martin, Austere Beauty: The Art of Z. Vanessa Helder (image) (pdf)
Day Four (Wednesday): "Grand Coulee Dam and the Modernist Impulse"
- Richard White, Organic Machine
- Benedict Colombi and James F. Brooks, Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon across the North Pacific (pdf)
- Benedict Colombi, Nation-States and the Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History, ("Salmon Migrations, Nez Perce Nationalism, and the Global Economy" - pp. 207-227) (pdf)
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