Pushed, miners, a merchant, and (maybe) a massacre, Ana Maria Spagna
Type
Label
Pushed, miners, a merchant, and (maybe) a massacre, Ana Maria Spagna
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Pushed
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1315537205
Responsibility statement
Ana Maria Spagna
Sub title
miners, a merchant, and (maybe) a massacre
Summary
"Amid an alarming rise in xenophobia, Ana Maria Spagna stumbled upon a story: one day in 1875, on a high bluff over the Columbia River, a group of local Indigenous people murdered a large number of Chinese Miners and pushed their bodies off a cliff into the river. The incident was dubbed the Chelan Falls Massacre. Despite having lived in the area for decades, Spagna had never before heard of this event. In Pushed, she sets out to discover what really happened and why. Her eye-opening investigative journey replaces convenient narratives of the American West with nuance and complexity, revealing the danger in forgetting or remembering atrocities when history is murky and asking what allegiance to a place requires"--Back cover
Target audience
adult
Creator
Subject
- Immigrants + Crimes against
- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century
- Memory + Social aspects
- Chinese Americans + History -- 19th century
- Massacres -- United States -- 19th century
- Xenophobia -- United States
- Chelan Falls (Wash.) -- History -- 19th century
- Chinese Americans + Crimes against
- Collective memory -- United States
- Indians of North America + History -- 19th century
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- Creator1
- Subject10
- Immigrants + Crimes against
- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century
- Memory + Social aspects
- Chinese Americans + History -- 19th century
- Massacres -- United States -- 19th century
- Xenophobia -- United States
- Chelan Falls (Wash.) -- History -- 19th century
- Chinese Americans + Crimes against
- Collective memory -- United States
- Indians of North America + History -- 19th century
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- Author1
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