City of the Changers

Title
City of the Changers
Description
Journal article from Pacific Historical Review depicts the experiences of the Duwamish and other Indigenous peoples during urban change of Seattle, Washington between the 1880s and 1930s. It talks about transformation like the creation of a canal between Puget Sound and Lake Washington and the straightening of the Duwamish River.
Creator
Coll Thrush
Abstract
Between the 1880s and the 1930s indigenous people continued to eke out traditional livings along the waterways and shorelines of Seattle's urbanizing and industrializing landscape. During those same years, however, the city's civic leaders and urban planners oversaw massive transformations of that landscape, including the creation of a ship canal linking Puget Sound with Lake Washington and the straightening of the Duwamish River. These transformations typified the modernizing ethos that sought to improve nature to ameliorate or even end social conflict. The struggle of the Duwamish and other local indigenous people to survive urban change, as well as the efforts by residents of nearby Indian reservations to maintain connections to places within the city, illustrate the complex, ironic legacies of Seattle's environmental history. They also show the ways in which urban and Native history are linked through both material and discursive practices.
volume
75
issue
1
pages
89-117
Date
2006
doi
10.1525/phr.2006.75.1.89
issn
0030-8684
uri
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/phr.2006.75.1.89
Is Part Of
State of the Salish Sea
Publisher
Pacific Historical Review
Item sets
Salish Resources

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