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Breaking Ground - The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village (Hardcover)
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Breaking Ground - The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village (Hardcover)
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In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to
work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world
would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was
atop one of the largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found
in the region. Yet the state continued its project, disturbing
hundreds of burials and unearthing more than 10,000 artifacts at
Tse-whit-zen village, the heart of the long-buried homeland of the
Klallam people. Excitement at the archaeological find of a
generation gave way to anguish as tribal members working alongside
state construction workers encountered more and more human remains,
including many intact burials. Finally, tribal members said the
words that stopped the project: "Enough is enough." Soon after,
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe chairwoman Frances Charles asked the
state to walk away from more than $70 million in public money
already spent on the project and find a new site. The state, in an
unprecedented and controversial decision that reverberated around
the nation, agreed. In search of the story behind the story,
Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes spent more than a year
interviewing tribal members, archaeologists, historians, city and
state officials, and local residents and business leaders. Her
account begins with the history of Tse-whit-zen village, and the
nineteenth- and twentieth-century impacts of contact, forced
assimilation, and industrialization. She then engages all the
voices involved in the dry dock controversy to explore how the site
was chosen, and how the decisions were made first to proceed and
then to abandon the project, as well as the aftermath and
implications of those controversial choices. This beautifully
crafted and compassionate account, illustrated with nearly 100
photographs, illuminates the collective amnesia that led to the
choice of the Port Angeles construction site. "You have to know
your past in order to build your future," Charles says, recounting
the words of tribal elders. Breaking Ground takes that teaching to
heart, demonstrating that the lessons of Tse-whit-zen are teachings
from which we all may benefit. A Capell Family Book
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