Bibliograph

Pushed, miners, a merchant, and (maybe) a massacre, Ana Maria Spagna

Type

Label

Pushed, miners, a merchant, and (maybe) a massacre, Ana Maria Spagna

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pushed

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1315537205

Responsibility statement

Ana Maria Spagna

Sub title

miners, a merchant, and (maybe) a massacre

Summary

"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

Target audience

adult

Classification