Taming Rivers

Alexander Perez, Fernando Lopez-Vega, River Woodruff, Mairi Sessions, & Calen Romig, 2024

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Abstract

The group uses archival material from the Whitman College Archives to highlight settler-colonialism and genocide by taming the watersways and watersheds in the Pacific Northwest. The group uses clippings from old Inland Empire Waterways project documents to critique the ways water engineers and experts used colonial terms and framings to colonize and imperialize the traditional water route for many indigenous groups in the region.


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