HST 096 1st Edition Lecture 22Outline of Last Lecture Outline of Current Lecture Key Terms: Spokane Indian Reservation, Grand Coolee Dam, Midnite Mine, and Sherman AlexieMassell started by saying: “I want to use this class to prep you for the discussion on Thurday.” Current LectureSpokane Reservation is located at the confluence of two great rivers, Spokane and the Columbia in Northeast Washington. The reservation is among 275 federally recognized Indian reservations in the U.S. (vast majority being located to the west.) Spokane Indian are considered Salish people in the same respect that Iroquois are considered Algonquin. Spokane translates to the “Sun People;” named by an outside tribe. When Lewis and Clark first made contact, the population of the Spokane people was 600 but now it 2,000 because of “death control” i.e. antibiotics, vaccinations etc. The Spokane experienced all of the classic phases of Indian-white interaction. They were originally hunters. Set up first trading postin 1810 that brought in metalwear, guns, and disease. Settlers in the West drove Spokane off their lands and in the 1880s were concentrated to a reservation. From concentration they experienced assimilation and in result forcibly stripped of ancestral tradition and culture. Grand Coolee Dam was built as part of FDR’s New Deal and was heavily needed as an energy source in WWII. It was built on the Columbia River but it’s back water flooded the Spokane River and in result, native fishing sites. The economic activities of the Spokane were destroyed. The Midnite Minesite is in the town of Wellpinit and was operated in the time of the Cold War by Dawn Mining Company. This company rented the lands from the Spokane tribes, and the uranium ore that was mined here was eventually moved to a processing plant about twenty-five miles away in Ford. The open pits from excavation, the ore stock piles, the piles of waste rock all remained on site. The radioactivity continued to seep into the surface and ground water, which flowed into Lake Roosevelt (Grand Coolee Dam). These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.We watched a video on Sherman Alexie, I think you can find it in the email the Massell sent us earlier today. If not, it’s a PBS production in which Alexie was interviewed on receiving the national publishers’ award. You can find it on YouTube However, it’s not really anything you can’t infer from the book.The second thing we watched was Reel Injun. I think that it can be found on Netflix. We started somewhere in scene 10 “Humor” and watched through the Renaissance. Although I am not entirely