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1941 - Celilo Falls - Oregon - USA - Salmon Fishers on the Columbia River (Lawsuits then Pending)
Photo by Russell Lee
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1941 - Celilo Falls - Oregon - USA - Salmon Fishers on the Columbia River (Lawsuits then Pending)
Photo by Russell Lee
Celilo Falls, 2024
collab with Alan Winans, 2003
Photo publicitaire de l'Union Pacific à Celilo Falls - Oregon - Avril 1940
Un Amérindien, Jimmy George, remet un saumon au conducteur Tom Rumgay.
À gauche devant le 'City of Portland' M10002 Streamliner le chef de Celilo, Wyam Tommy Thompson, son fils Henry Thompson, sa fille Ida Thompson et son épouse Flora Thompson.
Some Bo Yash from my latest chapter of Running to Stand Still, (and a little history lesson to go with it). This is the once magnificent Wyam also known as Celilo Falls in the Columbia Gorge.
Wyam was one of the longest inhabited settlements in North America, dating back to 11,000 - 15,000 years, and were a sacred fishing site for for the Yakama, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Nez Perce tribes. In the height of spring, 10 times the amount of water that passes over Niagara Falls today would flow over this powerful waterfall.
In the 1950's the The Dalles Dam was built, and when its massive walls finally closed, it only took 5 hours for the the falls to become drowned out by now Celilo Lake.
"The roar (of the falls) left us just like that." - Joe Jay Pinkham
Celilo Falls
June 11, 2021
Celilo Falls
Looking north across the columbia
Looking south at 1-84
Wishram, WA. Population 342
December 5, 2020
Wishram, Washington has been a settlement for millenia. Just beyond the railroad bridge was Celilo Falls. I did not travel specifically to Wishram on purpose, but rather randomly. While crusing down SR 14, I passed a highway sign that announced a "Historic Locomotive--1/2 miles." That's all it took.
To visit this town, is to see Americana at it's most modest. The last photo appears to capture all of the business district of this town nestled below the sheer walls of the gorge. However quiet this town is, it was where Native American Tribes fished and traded for thousands of years. It was briefly named "Fallbridge," referencing the important Oregon Trunk Railroad Bridge that crosses just to the west. It has an Amtrak Station while the larger cities nearby do not.
Regarding that Hisoric Locomotive, I don't think it could be displayed in a less tourist friendly way. The iron bars surround the entire thing and the roof, tightly capping the display area, nearly obscure the whole locomotive: It's impossible to get a decent picture of the whole thing. Oh well.
[ID: color photograph of men dipnet fishing at the Cul-de-Sac of Celilo Falls from wooden platforms; the Oregon Trunk rail bridge is visible in the background. /end ID]
United States Army Corps of Engineers, circa 1957
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