Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-Whit-Zen Village

by Lynda V. Mapes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295988789
• ISBN13: 9780295988788
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A balanced, thorough and moving description of the event.

During the controversy I had the privilege of attending a number of events and to be witness to the courage and dignity of the Elwha Klallam Tribe. I thought this book was a thorough and fair description of what happened. I also think Doug MacDonald is an honorable man. The book is also engagingly written. I'm sad that a complaint about delivery service is being counted as a book review. That comment belongs in rating the vendor, not here.