Breaking ground
Subtitle: the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe and the unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village
By: Lynda V. Mapes ; foreword by Frances Charles.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780295988788
Subjects: Clallam Indians -- Washington (State) -- Port Angeles -- Antiquities; Clallam Indians -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Washington (State) -- Port Angeles; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Washington (State) -- Port Angeles; Clallam Indians -- Washington (State) -- Port Angeles -- Pictorial works; Tse-whit-zen Village Site (Wash.); Lower Elwha Tribal Community of the Lower Elwha Reservation, Washington -- Interviews; Port Angeles (Wash.) -- Antiquities; Port Angeles (Wash.) -- Ethnic relations
Genres: Pictorial works.; Interviews.
Description: In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in the region. Yet the state continued its project, disturbing hundreds of burials and unearthing more than 10,000 artifacts at Tse-whit-zen village, the heart of the long-buried homeland of the Klallam people.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.