The larger story
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Chapter 02 Indigenous homelands
The valley they kept coming home to
The Nez Perce people never stopped knowing this valley as home. Photographs of families coming back to fish in the 1930s, the Tribe’s biologists on the Lostine River today, and a plan that looks a hundred years ahead tell the story of return in pieces. The people it belongs to should tell the rest.
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Chapter 05 Culture & gathering
A used book got you in the door
In 1899 you could join the Enterprise library by handing over a used book. A Grange brunch in Lostine, a writers’ gathering at Wallowa Lake and four file drawers of one woman’s papers finish the story.
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