TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spagna,Ana Maria
TI  - Pushed: miners, a merchant, and (maybe) a massacre 
SN  - 9781948814690
AV  - F899.C515 S63 2023
U1  - 979.7/59 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Salt Lake City
PB  - Torrey House Press
KW  - Massacres
KW  - United States
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Chinese Americans
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - History
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Xenophobia
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Memory
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - First Nations
KW  - fnhl
KW  - Chelan Falls (Wash.)
KW  - Northwest, Pacific
KW  - Pacific Northwest
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214); Massacre : Version I -- Walla Walla -- Wong Sam -- Ah Chee -- Earthquake -- Chee Saw -- Massacre : Version II -- Xenophobia takes root -- Up the ladder -- Dowsing -- Forget John Wayne -- Whose heritage? -- Back to the store -- Massacre : Version III -- Nearly unanimous -- The problem with make-believe -- Against amnesia -- Bones
N2  - "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
ER  -