Go to the Source:

• Rufus Woods
• Acquisition of Indian Lands, Relocation of Indian Cemeteries
• Reactions to inundation
• Newspaper clippings describe the inundation of communities
• Report, Committee on Natural Resources, 1994 Grand Coulee Dam Settlement Act
• The fate of the Pacific Northwest Salmon (U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries Report, the Mitchell Act, "The Great Salmon Mystery")

Questions to Consider:

• What do former workers recall about the construction of Grand Coulee Dam?
• Why did the Confederated Tribes of the Colville sue the government and what legal justifications did they provide for compensation?
• How was Grand Coulee Dam funded?
• Have utopian visions of the Columbia Basin Project withstood the test of time?

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