On this day in 2004, River Sizemore and his partner, Willow Barrington, formerly of Portland, Oregon, had their dreams shattered when they were forced by federal officers to abandon the shipping container house they'd built at the foot of the Cascade Mountains - a stretch of land which is within the boundaries of the Warm Springs Reservation, home of the Wasco and Paiute nations. When interviewed by The Central Oregonian about their heartbreaking ordeal, Sizemore was quoted as saying, "It's not fair. It took us three whole weekends to build our dream home. We're invested. To have our home stolen from us like this is just devastating. I can't believe something like this could happen in America."
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