The Si'lailo Way: Indians, Salmon, and Law on the Columbia River

by William H. Rodgers, Joseph C. Dupris, Kathleen Hill, et al.

"This book is about Indians "going to law" to protect both the salmon and their own inherent right to harvest them. They did this with an enthusiasm born of cultural, spiritual and economic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594600856
• ISBN13: 9781594600852
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 425 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Free-flowing Masterpiece

This book emphasizes what everybody shoud have done for a long time : listening to the Indians of the Pacific Northwest to protect the rivers and salmon. Serious and sometimes irreparable damages have been made on these rivers and salmon because of a continuing destruction or bad management by greedy or selfish nonIndians. It is time now to respect the Si'lailo Way and to restore the rivers following this way.