General Library Collection
General works of history, often of regional scope which may be helpful in studying Grand Coulee Dam and its effects. These materials are in the open stacks of the JFK Library. Most may be checked out.
- Kettle Falls Hub: A Lost Ethnohistory of Fish, Flora and Fauna byCall Number: F899. K482B26Publication Date: 2006M.A. Thesis, Eastern Washington University
- Death of Celilo Falls byCall Number: E78. O6B37Publication Date: 2005
- Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics byCall Number: TC566. B55Publication Date: 2006
- Coeur D'Alene, Flathead and Okanogan Indians byCall Number: E99. S63B63Publication Date: 1985Reprint of 1930 federal document.
- Religious Change and Plateau Indians: 1500 - 1850 byCall Number: E78. C63C43Publication Date: 1999Ph.D. dissertation, College of William and Mary
- People of the Falls byCall Number: E78.W3 C424 1986Publication Date: 1986
- Sentinal of Silence byCall Number: F899,S7 C5Publication Date: 1981
- A Common Fate: Endangered Salmon and People of the Pacific Northwest byCall Number: QL638.S2 C658Publication Date: 1996
- Sovereignty, Environmental Use and Ethnic Identity on the Colville Indian Reservation byCall Number: E99. C844D3Publication Date: 1990Ph.D. dissertation, Washington State University
- The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation: Upper Columbia Book of Legends byPublication Date: 2007
- Indigenous Legacy: Chief Moses, Skolaskin, and Joseph's Destiny to the Colville Reservation byCall Number: E99. C844F56Publication Date: 2005M.A. Thesis, Eastern Washington University
- An Overview and Assessment of the Cultural Resources in the Lake Roosevelt Basin of Northeastern Washington byCall Number: F897. C7O93Publication Date: 1994
- A Comparative History of Rural Communities on the Northwest Plains: Lincoln County Washington and the Wheatland Region, Alberta, 1880 - 1930. byCall Number: F897. L7G44Publication Date: 1990Ph.D. dissertation, Washington State University
- Native Arts of the Columbia Plateau byCall Number: E78. C63N37Publication Date: 1998
- Clarnce Dill: The Life of a Western Politician byCall Number: F891. D5I75Publication Date: 1994Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington
- Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World byCall Number: SummitPublication Date: 2001
- The Port of Moses lake: A History byCall Number: F899. M68K47Publication Date: 2012
- Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau byCall Number: E78. C63K49Publication Date: 1992
- The Jouranls of David E. Lilienthal: The TVA Years byCall Number: E748. L7A33 v.1Publication Date: 1964
- TVA: Democracy on the March byCall Number: TK1425. M8L53Publication Date: 1944
- Power Lines: Gian Hydroelectric Power in the Pacific Northwest, An Era and A Career byCall Number: TC556.5. N67M33Publication Date: 2012
- Aboriginal Use of Lamprey on the Columbia Plateau byCall Number: E98. F7N48Publication Date: 2007M.A. Thesis, Eastern Washington University
- The Ethnoichthyology of the Spokan Indian People byCall Number: E99. S68O83Publication Date: 1995M. A. Thesis, Eastern Washington University
- Meaning in Technology byCall Number: T14.P28Publication Date: 2001
- The Lamona Rockshelter: Cordage from the Columbia Plateau byCall Number: E78. C63P484Publication Date: 2013M. A. Thesis, Eastern Washington University
- This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. byCall Number: S930.P54Publication Date: 2007
- Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce: Strangers in the Land of the Nimiipuu byCall Number: F592.7 P56Publication Date: 2013
- Water and the American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902 - 1935 byCall Number: TC823.6.P57Publication Date: 2002
- B Street: The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam byCall Number: E99 C844R49Publication Date: 2008
- The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin Delano Roosevelt byCall Number: E748. L7A33Publication Date: 193813 volumes
- The Spokane Indians byCall Number: E99. S68R677Publication Date: 2011
- To Labor as an Indian Travels: What the Spokan Indians Taught The Eells and Walkers, Early Missionaries on the Columbia byCall Number: E99. S68R7956Publication Date: 2013M. A. Thesis, Eastern Washington University
- Spokane Indiand: Children of the Sun byCall Number: E99. S68R8Publication Date: 1970
- Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau: Smohalla and Skolaskin byCall Number: E99. W37S567Publication Date: 1989
- Columbia River Basketry: Gift fo the Ancestors, Gift of the EArth byCall Number: E78. C4S35Publication Date: 2002
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed byCall Number: HD87.5. S365Publication Date: 1998
- Building the Big Bend Country: The Saga of the Matthews Family, 1890 - 1960. byCall Number: F897. D7S43Publication Date: 1980M.A. Thesis, Eastern Washington University
- An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country byCall Number: F897. C7I29Publication Date: 1904
- Hail Columbia: The Thirty Year Struggle for Grand Coulee Dam byCall Number: TC425. C7S85Publication Date: 1954
- Empty Nets: Indians, Dams and the Columbia River byCall Number: KF8210. N37U45Publication Date: 2007
- Tribal Planning of Preventative Services Against Indian Family Destruction byCall Number: E99. C844W4Publication Date: 1980M.A. Thesis, Eastern Washington University
- Healing Through Decolonization: A Study in the Deconstruction of the Western Scientific Paradigm and the Process of Retribalizing Among native Americans byCall Number: E98. P95W44Publication Date: 1999Ph.D. dissertation
- The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River byCall Number: F853. W675Publication Date: 1996
- The Circle, Broke: Gender, Family, and Difference in the Pacific Northwest, 1811 - 1850. byCall Number: E97.65. N7W75Publication Date: 1996Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers
- "The Poetics of Water: Currents of Reclamation in the Columbia River Basin"" byCall Number: PN98. E36B56Publication Date: 2012Contained in The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology and Place, edited by Lynch, Tom, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Karla Armbruster.
- Rivers, Memory and Nation Building: A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers byCall Number: DK511. V65Z44Publication Date: 2014
- A History of the Kennewisck Irrigation District, State of Washington, 1880 - 1987 byCall Number: F897. Y2Z45Publication Date: 1987Ph.D. dissertation, Washington State University
Special Collections
The Archives & Special Collections Department holds material on the history, government, and economic development of the Inland Northwest. Special Collections items are available for use only in the Special Collections Reading Room during normal office hours, Monday - Friday 12:00 Noon - 4:00 PM (Summer hours). The materials listed are a selection of items cataloged in the Special Collections which may be helpful to studying the development of Grand Coulee Dam and its impact on the region.
- The Columbia River: Final Lettersof TransmittalCall Number: SPC US Gov Doc XMD: 11411 Supp.Publication Date: 1950
- Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America byCall Number: SUMMITPublication Date: 1994
- Coeur D'Alene, Flathead and Okanogan Indians byCall Number: E99. S63B63Publication Date: 1985Reprint of Bureau of Ethnology annual report No. 45.
- The People's History of Stevens County. byCall Number: SPC F897. S9B62Publication Date: 1983
- Austere Beauty: The Art of Z. Vanessa Helder byCall Number: SUMMITPublication Date: 2013
- Interior Salish and Eastern Wahington Indians: I byCall Number: SPC E99. S21I57Publication Date: 1974Volume is part of three volumes held.
- Interior Salish and Eastern Washington Indians II byCall Number: SPC E99. S21I57 v.2Publication Date: 1974Volume 2 of three held
- Archaeology of the Upper Columbia Region byCall Number: SPC E77. W35 9:1Publication Date: 1942
- The Mightiest of Them All byCall Number: SPC TC557, W22G734Publication Date: 1986
- The Flathead Indians byCall Number: SPC E99. S2F24Publication Date: 1974
- Interior Salish and Eastern Washington Indiand III byCall Number: SPC E99I57 vol 3 S21Publication Date: 19743 of three volumes held.
- A Design for Management of Cultural Resources in the Lake Roosevelt Basin of Northeastern Washington byCall Number: SPC F897. C7O93Publication Date: 1994
- Nch'i-wana, "The Big River": Mid Columbia Indians and Their Land. byCall Number: SPC E99. S325H86Publication Date: 1989
- Nch'i-Wana "The Big River": Mid Columbia Indians and Their Land byCall Number: SPC E99. S325H86Publication Date: 1990
- Reclaiming the Arid West byCall Number: SPC TC823.6 J2Publication Date: 1917
- Still to the West byCall Number: SPC PS3519. O4663S7Publication Date: 1946
- Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World byCall Number: SUMMITPublication Date: 2002
- Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon Through Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again byCall Number: SPC F1060.8 K163Publication Date: 1925
- A Foreigner Looks at the TVA byCall Number: SUMMITPublication Date: 1937
- The Columbia River: A Comprehensive Report on the Development of the Water Resources of the Columbia River Basin for Irrigation, Power Production, and Other Beneficial Uses in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming byCall Number: S11410PC US Doc XMD:Publication Date: 1947
- The Columbia River byCall Number: SPC US GovDoc I17.25:C72/v.1Publication Date: 1947
- The Columbia River: Supplement byCall Number: SPC US GovDoc I27.5:C72v.2Publication Date: 1950
- Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River byCall Number: SUMMITPublication Date: 1999
- Reclaiming the American West byCall Number: SPC TC823.6 L43Publication Date: 1980
- Power Lines: Giant Hyrdroelectric Power in the Pacific Northwest, An Era and a Career byCall Number: TC556.5. N67M33Publication Date: 2012
- Power Lines: Ginat Hydroelectric Power in the Pacific Northwest, An Era and a Career. byCall Number: SPC TC556.5 N67M33Publication Date: 2009
- The Grand Coulee of Washington and Dry Falls in Picture and Story byCall Number: SPC TC425. C7M3Publication Date: 1950
- The Dam byCall Number: SPC TC425. W22G737Publication Date: 1954
- Administrative Challenge and Response: The Role of the Bonneville Power Administration in the West Coast Intertie Decision byPublication Date: 1966
- American Technological Sublime byCall Number: SUMMITPublication Date: 1994
- Preliminary Socioeconomic Analysis: Second Half of the Columbia Basin Project byCall Number: SPC TC425 C7P72 v. 1-2.Publication Date: 1985
- Salmon and His People byCall Number: SPC E99. N5L36Publication Date: 1999
- Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream byCall Number: SPC TC557. W22G737Publication Date: 1994
- American Technology byCall Number: SUMMITPublication Date: 2001
- The Sanpoil and Nespelem: Salashian Peoples of Northeastern Washington byCall Number: E77. W35 v. 5Publication Date: 19331980 reprint
- The Spokan Indians byCall Number: E99. S68R677Publication Date: 2011
- Columbia River Basketry: Gift of the Ancestors, Gift of the Earth byCall Number: E78. C64s35Publication Date: 2002
- Readings in Environmental Ethics: Multidisciplinary Perspectives byCall Number: SUMMIT
- Hail Columbia: The 30-Year Struggle of Grand Coulee Dam byCall Number: SPC TC425. C7S85Publication Date: 1954
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