d education, utilities, housing, etc. What happened was the beginning of the disruption of the entire community. Then, in 1970, it was discovered that the river had been poisoned by industrial pollution. In response to these catastrophes, members of the tribe began to drink heavily, engage in violence, kill themselves, etc. What the author sets out to document, then, is the destruction of a traditional native community in just over a decade by the forces of government and industry, and the subsequent resignation and self-destruction of the same people in response.
Shkilnyk writes that her point of view is shaped by a number of influences and concerns, including the anthropological, the sociological, the psychological, the field of social planning, the governmental, the environ
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