B Street the notorious playground of Coulee Dam /

Reyes, Lawney L.

B Street the notorious playground of Coulee Dam / [electronic resource] : Lawney L. Reyes. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008. - xxii, 155 p. : ill., maps.

"How the building of Grand Coulee Dam changed forever the lives of one Indian family and devastated an entire tribe"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-155).

Moccasin telegraph -- The town hall -- Family planning -- B Street -- Working stiffs -- Pretty ladies -- Woo dip -- Show business -- The China man -- Ceremony of tears.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780295803340 (electronic bk.)




Colville Indians--History.
Colville Indians--Government relations.
Water resources development--History.--Columbia River Watershed


Colville Indian Reservation (Wash.)--History.
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)--History.
Grand Coulee (Wash.)--History.
Grand Coulee (Wash.)--Ethnic relations.


Electronic books.

E99.C844 / R49 2008

979.7/31