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{{Short description|Historical waterfall on the Columbia River in Washington (state), United States}} |
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Located between the states of [[Oregon]] and [[Washington]], '''Celilo Falls''' was a unique natural feature formed by the relentless push of the [[Columbia River]] through the basalt-laden narrows east of the [[Cascade Mountains]], onward towards the [[Pacific Ocean]]—the final leg of the river's 1,152 mile (1,857 km) journey. During periods of high water or flood, it was noted that nearly one million cubic feet of water per second (CFS) would pass over the falls, creating a tremendous roar that could be heard many miles away. Celilo falls itself was part of a series of abrupt drops and undulations along what was called Five Mile Rapids, an area stretching from [[Celilo Village]] to [[The Dalles]], Oregon. |
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| name = Celilo Falls |
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| alt_name = Wyam |
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| image = Corps-engineers-archives celilo falls color.jpg |
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| caption = Dipnet fishing at Celilo Falls in the 1950s |
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| map = Oregon |
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| location = Between [[Wasco County, Oregon|Wasco County]], [[Oregon]] and [[Klickitat County, Washington|Klickitat County]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]] |
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| watercourse = [[Columbia River]] |
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| type = Segmented steep cascade; submerged since 1957 |
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'''Celilo Falls''' ('''Wyam''', meaning "echo of falling water" or "sound of water upon the rocks," in several native languages) was a tribal fishing area on the [[Columbia River]], just east of the [[Cascade Range|Cascade Mountains]], on what is today the border between the [[U.S. state]]s of [[Oregon]] and [[Washington (state)|Washington]]. The name refers to a series of cascades and waterfalls on the river, as well as to the native settlements and trading villages that existed there in various configurations for 15,000 years. Celilo was the oldest continuously inhabited community on the North American continent until 1957, when the falls and nearby settlements were submerged by the construction of [[The Dalles Dam]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Dietrich | first = William | title = Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River | publisher = University of Washington Press | place = Seattle, WA | year = 1995 | page = 52 | isbn = 0-671-79650-X}}</ref> In 2019, there were calls by tribal leaders to restore the falls.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2021-04-20 |title=Pacific Northwest tribes: Remove Columbia River dams |url=https://apnews.com/article/dams-us-news-ap-top-news-the-dalles-wa-state-wire-dc9df60df54e46be9b17a3b792df12e1 |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref> |
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==Geography== |
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For millennia native peoples had come to Celilo to fish and trade goods. Artifacts retrieved from the original village site suggest that tribes from as far away as the [[Great Plains]], Southwestern United States, and interior [[Canada]] gathered here, and that the site had been occupied continuously for at least 10,000 years. When [[Lewis and Clark]] passed through in 1805 they were struck by the variety or peoples gathered at Celilo, noting a “great emporium...where all the neighboring nations assemble”. They also wrote of the high population density in this region, which exceeded anything which they had seen prior on their journey west. Appropriately, many historians liken the area around Ceilio as once being the “Wall Street of the West”. A mere fifty years after Lewis and Clark wrote of the falls, immigrants on wooden barges loaded with wagons traversed the waters of the Columbia; many lost their lives in the violent waters of the near Celilo. |
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[[File:Celilo Falls Lee 2.jpg|thumb|left|Native salmon fishermen at Celilo Falls. [[Russell Lee (photographer)|Russell Lee]], September 1941.]] |
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===Main waterfall=== |
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The main waterfall, known variously as Celilo Falls, The Chutes, Great Falls, or Columbia Falls,<ref name=gibson>{{cite book |last= Gibson |first= James R. | title= The Lifeline of the Oregon Country: The Fraser-Columbia Brigade System, 1811-47 |year= 1997 |publisher= University of British Columbia (UBC) Press |isbn= 0-7748-0643-5 |url= https://archive.org/details/lifelineoforegon0000gibs |url-access= registration |pages= [https://archive.org/details/lifelineoforegon0000gibs/page/125 125]–128}}</ref> consisted of three sections: a [[waterfall|cataract]], called Horseshoe Falls or Tumwater Falls; a deep eddy, the Cul-de-Sac; and the main channel.<ref name="database" /> These features were formed by the Columbia River's relentless push through [[basalt]] [[narrows]] on the final leg of its journey to the [[Pacific Ocean]]. Frequently more than a mile (1.6 km) in width, the river was squeezed here into a width of only 140 feet (43 m).<ref>{{cite book | last = Dietrich | first = William | title = Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River | publisher = University of Washington Press | place = Seattle, WA | year = 1995 | page = 80 | isbn = 0-671-79650-X}}</ref> The seasonal flow of the Columbia changed the height of the falls over the course of a year. At low water the drop was about {{convert|20|ft|m}}. In 1839, Modeste Demers investigated the area in some detail and described not just one fall but a great many, in different channels and with different qualities. He wrote, "The number and variety [of the channels and falls] are surprising. They are not all equally deep. The falls are from 3 to 12 and 15 feet high."<ref name=gibson/> During the spring [[freshet]] in June and July, the falls could be completely submerged. The falls were the sixth-largest by volume in the world and were among the largest in North America.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com/database.php?s=N&t=W&orderby=avevolume&sortLimit=5000 |title=World Waterfall Database |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927093831/http://www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com/database.php?s=N&t=W&orderby=avevolume&sortLimit=5000 |archive-date=2007-09-27 }}</ref> Average annual flow was about 190,000 ft<sup>3</sup>/sec (5,380 m<sup>3</sup>/s), and during periods of high water or [[flood]], as much as 1,240,000 ft<sup>3</sup>/sec (35,113 m<sup>3</sup>/s) passed over the falls.<ref name="database">{{cite web | title = World Waterfall database | url = http://www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com/waterfall.php?num=161 | access-date = 2008-02-01 | archive-date = 2006-11-28 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061128154519/http://www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com/waterfall.php?num=161 | url-status = live }}</ref> |
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[[File:Celilo Falls Lee.jpg|thumb|left|Fishing sites existed along the entire length of The Narrows. [[Russell Lee (photographer)|Russell Lee]], September 1941.]] |
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The 20th century brought great changes for not only the falls but those who had come to rely on them as a source of livelihood. The first such change came in 1913 when the [[Army Corps of Engineers]] built the [[Dalles-Celilo canal]], a portage circumventing the turbulent falls. As river traffic increased during the 1930’s on the Columbia, so did the push for creation of a faster more navigable route through the Celilo area. After a series of Congressional hearings, it was decided that treaties set forth in 1855 protecting tribal fishing rites would not be impinged upon by a plan to increase water level by the constructing a dam below Celilo. Subsequently, a monetary settlement was reached between the U.S. government and the affected tribes. In 1952 the Army Corps of Engineers commenced work on [[The Dalles Dam]], completing it by early 1957. On March 10, 1957 under a placid blue sky, as hundreds of observers looked on, a rising [[Lake Celilo]] rapidly silenced the falls, submerged fishing ladders, and consumed the village of Celilo, ending an age-old existence for those who lived there. |
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===The Narrows and The Dalles=== |
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Celilo Falls itself was the first in a series of cascades and [[rapids]] known collectively as The Narrows or The Dalles, stretching for about {{convert|12|mi|km}} downstream.<ref>{{cite gnis |id=1530564 |name=The Dalles (historical)}}</ref> Over that length, the river dropped {{convert|82|ft|m}} at high water and {{convert|63|ft|m}} at low water.<ref name=gibson/> |
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[[File:Grand Dalles of the Columbia.png|thumb|right|The Dalles (photo from Horner, 1919)]] |
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The Dalles Dam was often touted as providing much needed power for industry (predominately aluminum plants) and surplus power for an ever growing post-war population of the Northwestern United States. And, indeed, it has reached that end—now an important member of the [[Bonneville Power Administration]]’s network of [[hydroelectric dams]], which supply electricity to places as far away as [[Southern California]]. However, the original driving force for the placement of a dam above The Dalles was not energy production, but rather the creation of slackwater for barges moving goods from interior regions of Oregon, Washington and [[Idaho]] to the Pacific. |
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Three miles (4.8 km) below Celilo Falls was a stretch of rapids known variously as the Short Narrows, Ten Mile Rapids, the Little (or Upper) Dalles, or Les Petites Dalles. These rapids were about {{convert|1|mi|km}} long and {{convert|250|ft|m}} wide. Ten miles (16 km) below Celilo Falls was another stretch of rapids, this one known as the Long Narrows, Five Mile Rapids, the Big (or Lower) Dalles, Les Grandes Dalles, or Grand Dalles. This stretch of rapids was about {{convert|3|mi|km}} long, and the river channel narrowed to {{convert|75|ft|m}}. Immediately downstream were the Dalles Rapids (or Wascopam to the local natives), about {{convert|1.5|mi|km}} long. Here the river dropped {{convert|15|ft|m}} in a tumult much commented on by early explorers.<ref name=gibson/> |
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The Long Narrows and the Dalles Rapids are sometimes grouped together under names such as Grand Dalles, Les Dalles, Big Dalles, or The Dalles. One early observer, Ross Cox, noted a three-mile "succession of boiling whirlpools."<ref name=gibson/> Explorer [[Charles Wilkes]] described it as "one of the most remarkable places upon the Columbia." He calculated that the river dropped about {{convert|50|ft|m}} over {{convert|2|mi|km}} here. During the spring freshet, the river rose as much as {{convert|62|ft|m}}, radically altering the nature of the rapids.<ref name=gibson/> Fur trader [[Alexander Ross (fur trader)|Alexander Ross]] wrote, "[The water] rushes with great impetuosity; the foaming surges dash through the rocks with terrific violence; no craft, either large or small, can venture there safely. During floods, this obstruction, or ledge of rocks, is covered with water, yet the passage of the narrows is not thereby improved."<ref name=gibson/> |
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==History== |
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[[File:Indians drying salmon by James M Davis, c1900.jpg|thumb|left|[[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] drying [[salmon]], circa 1900]] |
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===Fishing and trading=== |
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{{quote box|width=250px|quote=Our waters shall be free: free to serve the uses and purposes of their creation by a [[Divine Providence]].|source= —Portland investor and civic leader [[Joseph Nathan Teal]], at the canal's opening ceremony.<ref>J. B. Tyrell, ed., David Thompson: Narrative of his Explorations in Western America, 1784-1812 (Toronto, 1916, 496-97; "Address of Joseph Nathan Teal), The Dalles-Celilo Celebration, Big Eddy, Oregon (May 5, 1915," Oregon Historical quarterly, 16 (Fall 1916), 107-8. (As quoted in {{cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3951/is_200004/ai_n8884518/pg_1 |title=The Columbia River's fate in the twentieth century |access-date=2007-04-16 |archive-date=2016-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110105047/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3951/is_200004/ai_n8884518/pg_1 |url-status=live }})</ref>}} |
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[[File:Celilofalls.ogg|thumb|right|240px|Newsreel footage of [[Native Americans in the United States|native]] fishers at Celilo Falls in 1956, shortly before the site was submerged by [[The Dalles Dam]]]] |
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[[File:Clark Family Collection- Volume 4. Voorhis Journal No. 4, page 7, October 22-23, 1806.jpg|thumb|left|[[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] map, 1806]] |
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For 15,000 years, [[Native Americans in the United States|native peoples]] gathered at Wyam to fish and exchange goods.<ref>{{cite book | last = Barber | first = Katrine |author2=Ed. William G. Robbins | title=Narrative Fractures and Fractured Narratives: Celilo Falls in the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and the Yakama Nation Cultural Heritage Center | work = The Great Northwest: The Search for Regional Identity | publisher = Oregon State University Press | place = Corvallis, Oregon | year = 2001}}</ref> They built wooden platforms out over the water and caught [[salmon]] with dipnets and long spears on poles as the fish swam up through the rapids and jumped over the falls.<ref>{{cite book | last = Dietrich | first = William | title = Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River | publisher = University of Washington Press | place = Seattle, WA | year = 1995 | page = 154 | isbn = 0-671-79650-X}}</ref> Historically, an estimated fifteen to twenty million salmon passed through the falls every year, making it among the greatest fishing sites in North America.<ref>{{cite news | last = Rohrbacher | first = George | title = Talk of the Past: The salmon fisheries of Celilo Falls | work = Common-Place | date = January 2006 | url = http://www.common-place.org/vol-06/no-02/talk/ | access-date = 2008-02-01 | archive-date = 2007-11-11 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071111052106/http://www.common-place.org/vol-06/no-02/talk/ | url-status = live }}</ref> |
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Celilo Falls and The Dalles were strategically located at the border between [[Chinookan languages|Chinookan]] and [[Sahaptian]] speaking peoples and served as the center of an extensive trading network across the Pacific Plateau.<ref name="Ronda">{{cite book | last=Ronda | first=James P. | title=Lewis & Clark among the Indians | work=Down the Columbia | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | place=Lincoln, Nebraska | year=1984 | url=https://archive.org/details/lewisclarkamongt00jame | access-date=2008-02-01 | isbn=0-8032-3870-3 | url-access=registration }} {{dead link| date=June 2010 | bot=DASHBot}}</ref> Artifacts from the original village site at Celilo suggest that trade goods came from as far away as the [[Great Plains]], [[Southwestern United States]], and [[Alaska]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Center for Columbia River History |title=Oregon's Oldest Town: 11,000 Years of Occupation |url=http://www.ccrh.org/comm/river/celilo.htm |access-date=2008-02-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215200136/http://www.ccrh.org/comm/river/celilo.htm |archive-date=2008-02-15 }}</ref> There are also numerous rock art drawings at the head of the falls. This demonstrates the site to not just be important for trading purposes. It acted as a melting pot for the cultures which fished and traded there.<ref>{{cite book|last=Snow|first=Dean R.|title=Archaeology of Native North America|year=2010|publisher=Prentice Hall|location=Boston|isbn=978-0-13-615686-4}}</ref> When the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] passed through the area in 1805, the explorers found a "great emporium...where all the neighboring nations assemble," and a population density unlike anything they had seen on their journey.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Cressman | first = L.S. | title = Cultural Sequences at the Dalles, Oregon: A Contribution to Pacific Northwest Prehistory | journal = Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | volume = 50 | issue = 10 | pages = 1–108 | doi = 10.2307/1005853 | year = 1960 | publisher = American Philosophical Society | jstor = 1005853 | display-authors = etal | url = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/imgsrv/download/pdf?id=mdp.39076005656769;orient=0;size=100;seq=3;attachment=0 | hdl = 2027/mdp.39076005656769 | hdl-access = free | access-date = 2019-09-24 | archive-date = 2019-09-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190924073658/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/imgsrv/download/pdf?id=mdp.39076005656769;orient=0;size=100;seq=3;attachment=0 | url-status = live }}</ref> Accordingly, historians have likened the Celilo area to the "[[Wall Street]] of the West."<ref>{{cite news | last = Alpert | first = Emily | title = Remembering Celilo Falls | work = The Dalles Chronicle | date = 2006-07-10 | url = http://www.bluefish.org/celilofa.htm | access-date = 2008-02-01 | archive-date = 2006-10-08 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061008082700/http://www.bluefish.org/celilofa.htm | url-status = live }}</ref> The [[Wasco-Wishram|Wishram]] people lived on the north bank, while the [[Wasco-Wishram|Wasco]] lived on the south bank, with the most intense bargaining occurring at the Wishram village of [[Wishram village|Nix-luidix]].<ref name="Ronda" /> Charles Wilkes reported finding three major native fishing sites on the lower Columbia — Celilo Falls, the Big Dalles, and [[Cascades Rapids]], with the Big Dalles being the largest. Alexander Ross described it as the "great rendezvous" of native traders, as "the great emporium or mart of the Columbia."<ref name=gibson/> [[Pinniped]]s such as sea lions and seals followed salmon up the Columbia as far as Celilo Falls. In 1841 [[George Simpson (administrator)|George Simpson]] wrote "these animals ascend the Columbia in great numbers in quest of the salmon.<ref>{{cite book |last = Mackie |first= Richard Somerset |title= Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific 1793-1843 |year= 1997 |publisher= University of British Columbia (UBC) Press |location= Vancouver |isbn= 0-7748-0613-3 |pages= 191–192}} online at {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VKXgJw6K088C |title=Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843 |isbn=9780774806138 |access-date=2016-09-23 |archive-date=2016-04-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426045756/https://books.google.com/books?id=VKXgJw6K088C |url-status=live |last1=MacKie |first1=Richard |date=1997 |publisher=UBC Press }}</ref> |
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===Navigation=== |
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The seasonal changes in the Columbia's flow, high in summer and low in winter, affected Celilo Falls dramatically. Lewis and Clark reached Celilo Falls in the late autumn when the water was relatively low, turning the falls into a major barrier. In contrast, when [[David Thompson (explorer)|David Thompson]] passed Celilo Falls in July 1811, the high water obscured the falls and made his passage through the Columbia Gorge relatively easy.<ref>{{cite book |last= Meinig |first= D.W. |author-link= D.W. Meinig |title= The Great Columbia Plain |orig-year= 1968 |edition= Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classic |year= 1995 |publisher= University of Washington Press |isbn= 0-295-97485-0 |pages= 37–38, 50}}</ref> Modeste Demers wrote about the seasonal change in 1839: "One may be astonished to learn that these ''chutes'', so terrible at low water, are smooth and still at very high water, which does not happen every year. Then it is that, instead of fearing them, the [[voyageurs]] hasten to approach them, to light their pipes and rest."<ref name=gibson/> More difficult was the Long Narrows, or Big Dalles, ten miles below Celilo Falls. This section of the river was impassable during high water. During the autumn low water they were passable but with unloaded boats only, and even then the passage was very dangerous. "They are never passed without dread," wrote François Blanchet in 1839.<ref name=gibson/> [[Narcissa Whitman]] asserted in 1836 that over one hundred "white lives" had been lost at the Dalles.<ref>''The Lifeline of the Oregon Country'', p. 42''</ref> |
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In the 1840s and 1850s, American [[American pioneer|pioneers]] began arriving in the area, traveling down the Columbia on wooden barges loaded with wagons. Many lost their lives in the violent currents near Celilo.<ref>{{cite web | title = Waiilatpu Mission Resource Education Guide | publisher = Whitman Mission National Historic Site | date = 2004-11-14 | url =http://www.nps.gov/whmi/forteachers/upload/Waiilatpu%20Mission%20Resource%20Education%20Guide.doc |
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| access-date = 2008-02-01|format=DOC }}</ref> In the 1870s, the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|Army Corps of Engineers]] embarked on a plan to improve navigation on the river. In 1915, they completed the {{convert|14|mi|km|adj=on}} [[Celilo Canal]], a [[portage]] allowing [[Steamboats on the Columbia River|steamboats]] to circumvent the turbulent falls. Though the canal's opening was greeted with great enthusiasm and anticipation, the canal was scarcely used and was completely idle by 1919.<ref>{{cite book | last = Dietrich | first = William | title = Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River | publisher = University of Washington Press | place = Seattle, WA | year = 1995 | page = 204 | isbn = 0-671-79650-X}}</ref> |
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==Flooding by the dam== |
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[[File:Celilo Sonar.jpg|thumb|right|240px|2008 sonar survey showing Celilo Falls remains intact.]] |
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As more settlers arrived in the [[Pacific Northwest]] in the 1930s and 1940s, civic leaders advocated a system of [[hydroelectric dam]]s on the Columbia River. They argued that the dams would improve navigation for barge traffic from interior regions to the ocean; provide a reliable source of [[irrigation]] for [[agriculture|agricultural production]]; provide [[electricity]] for the [[World War II]] [[United States Department of Defense|defense industry]]; and alleviate the flooding of downriver cities, as occurred in the 1948 destruction of [[Vanport City, Oregon|Vanport, Oregon]]. |
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[[Aluminum]] production, [[shipbuilding]], and nuclear production at the [[Hanford site]] contributed to a rapid increase in regional demand for electricity. By 1943, fully 96 percent of Columbia River electricity was being used for war manufacturing.<ref>{{cite book | last = Dietrich | first = William | title = Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River | publisher = University of Washington Press | place = Seattle, WA | year = 1995 | page = 284 | isbn = 0-671-79650-X}}</ref> The volume of water at Celilo Falls made [[The Dalles]] an attractive site for a new dam in the eyes of the Corps of Engineers. |
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Throughout this period, native people continued to fish at Celilo, under the provisions of the [[Walla Walla Council (1855)|1855 Treaties]] signed with the [[Yakama Nation]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Treaty with the Yakama, 1855 |url=http://www.critfc.org/text/yaktreaty.html |access-date=2008-02-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209225523/http://www.critfc.org/text/yaktreaty.html |archive-date=2008-02-09 }}</ref> the [[Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Treaty of Wasco, Columbia River, Oregon Territory with the Taih, Wyam, Tenino, & Dock-Spus Bands of the Walla-Walla, and the Dalles, Ki-Gal-Twal-La, and the Dog River Bands of the Wasco |url=http://www.warmsprings.com/Warmsprings/Tribal_Community/History__Culture/Treaty__Documents/Treaty_of_1855.html |access-date=2008-02-01 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20071219193804/http://www.warmsprings.com/Warmsprings/Tribal_Community/History__Culture/Treaty__Documents/Treaty_of_1855.html |archive-date=2007-12-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[Walla Walla (tribe)|Walla Walla]], [[Umatilla (tribe)|Umatilla]], and [[Cayuse people|Cayuse]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Treaty with the Walla Walla, Cayuse and Umatilla, 1855 |url=http://www.umatilla.nsn.us/treaty.html |access-date=2008-02-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226134500/http://www.umatilla.nsn.us/treaty.html |archive-date=2008-02-26 }}</ref> which guaranteed the tribes' ancient "right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed stations." In 1947, the [[United States government|federal government]] convened [[United States Congress|Congressional]] hearings and concluded that the proposed dam at The Dalles would not violate tribal fishing rights under the treaties.<ref name="Dietrich 1995 378">{{cite book | last = Dietrich | first = William | title = Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River | publisher = University of Washington Press | place = Seattle, WA | year = 1995 | page = 378 | isbn = 0-671-79650-X}}</ref> Subsequently, the government reached a monetary settlement with the affected tribes, paying $26.8 million for the loss of Celilo and other fishing sites on the Columbia.<ref>{{cite book | last = Dietrich | first = William | title = Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River | publisher = University of Washington Press | place = Seattle, WA | year = 1995 | page = 376 | isbn = 0-671-79650-X}}</ref> |
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The Army Corps of Engineers commenced work on [[The Dalles Dam]] in 1952 and completed it five years later. On March 10, 1957, hundreds of observers looked on as a rising [[Lake Celilo]] rapidly silenced the falls, submerged fishing platforms, and consumed the village of Celilo, ending an age-old existence for those who lived there. A small Native American community exists today at nearby [[Celilo Village, Oregon|Celilo Village]], on a bluff overlooking the former location of the falls. |
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In 2008 the Army Corps of Engineers completed a survey of the Celilo Falls site using [[sonar]] technology, in response to the 50th anniversary of the flooding of the falls. The survey revealed that the falls remain intact below the artificial lake, and that "rocky outcrops, carved basins and channels that match aerial photographs from the 1940s."<ref>{{cite news|title=Sonar shows Celilo Falls are intact|last=Rojas-Burke|first=Joe|date=November 28, 2008|work=[[The Oregonian]]|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/sonar_shows_celilo_falls_are_i.html|access-date=2008-11-28|archive-date=2008-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201055754/http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/sonar_shows_celilo_falls_are_i.html|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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==Legacy== |
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Celilo Falls retains great cultural significance for native peoples. Ted Strong of the Intertribal Fish Commission told one historian, "If you are an Indian person and you think, you can still see all the characteristics of that waterfall. If you listen, you can still hear its roar. If you inhale, the fragrances of mist and fish and water come back again."<ref name="Dietrich 1995 378" /> In 2007, three thousand people gathered at Celilo Village to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the inundation of the falls.<ref>{{cite news|last=Modie |first=Jonathan |title=The Celilo Legacy commemoration brought together the tribes of the lower Columbia River and others to remember Celilo Falls, bringing a mix of sadness and nostalgia. |work=Wana Chinook Tymoo |url=http://www.critfc.org/wana/legacy.html |access-date=2008-02-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515145832/http://www.critfc.org/wana/legacy.html |archive-date=2008-05-15 }}</ref> |
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In [[Ken Kesey]]'s novel [[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]], the narrator, Chief Bromden, grows up in a native village near the waterfall. In one section, he encounters the government agents sent to appraise the land and negotiate with Bromden's father, the chief of the village at the time. |
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Artist and architect [[Maya Lin]] is working on interpretive artwork at Celilo for the [[Confluence Project]], scheduled for completion in 2019.<ref> |
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{{cite web | title=Confluence Project: Celilo Park| url=http://www.confluenceproject.org/project_sites/celilo_park/ | access-date=2008-02-01|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080126062422/http://www.confluenceproject.org/project_sites/celilo_park/ |archive-date = January 26, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Celilo Park|url=http://www.confluenceproject.org/project-sites/celilo-park/|website=Confluence Project|access-date=2014-09-08|archive-date=2014-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911002152/http://www.confluenceproject.org/project-sites/celilo-park/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.portlandoregon.gov/brfs/article/642038 |title=FY2016-17 Competitive Process Special Appropriations Grant Awardee: CONFLUENCE Grant Project: CONFLUENCE PROJECT AT CELILO PARK |access-date=2018-03-03 |archive-date=2018-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303225608/https://www.portlandoregon.gov/brfs/article/642038 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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{{Wide image|Celilo Falls aerial.jpg|1350px|Aerial view of Lake Celilo on the Columbia River, after construction of The Dalles Dam. The former location of Celilo Falls, the Short Narrows, and the Long Narrows are noted in parentheses. (The river bends to the southwest downstream of Browns Island; the left panel is rotated so that the image fits horizontally.)}} |
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== Restoration calls == |
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[[Yakama]] and [[Lummi Nation|Lummi]] nation leaders called for a restoration of the falls in 2019, who noted that Indigenous peoples never agreed to the submergence of the falls. They cited that the river's temperature has become hotter with the reservoir each year and that there has been a large decline in salmon populations.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Northwest Tribes Call For Removal Of Lower Columbia River Dams |url=https://www.opb.org/news/article/pacific-northwest-tribes-remove-columbia-river-dams/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=opb |language=en}}</ref> They also noted that the dam has destroyed fishing sites that were guaranteed to the tribes in treaties 150 years ago.<ref name=":0" /> In response, Northwest RiverPartners issued a statement that the dam remains important for [[hydropower]] electricity generation for ports and businesses in the area.<ref name=":1" /> |
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* http://www.offbeatoregon.com/H1009a_celilo-falls-part-of-once-wild-Columbia.html |
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* The Run of the River (The Memory Palace) http://thememorypalace.us/2015/08/run-of-the-river/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912003519/http://thememorypalace.us/2015/08/run-of-the-river/ |date=2017-09-12 }} |
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* Woody, Elizabeth. {{cite web|url=http://www.salmonnation.com/essays/recalling_celilo.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830001941/http://www.salmonnation.com/essays/recalling_celilo.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-08-30 |title=''Recalling Celilo'' }}. |
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* {{cite web |url=http://www.critfc.org |title=Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission}}, includes Celilo Legacy commemoration and Celilo history |
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* Fisher, Andrew H. {{cite web|url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/105.2/fisher.html |title=''Tangled Nets: Treaty Rights and Tribal Identities at Celilo Falls'' |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121013604/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/105.2/fisher.html |archive-date=2007-11-21 }}, Oregon Historical Quarterly, summer 2004. |
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* Fredlund, Diana. {{cite web|url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/108.4/fredlund.html |title=The Corps of Engineers and Celilo Falls: Facing the Past, Looking to the Future |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612213810/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/108.4/fredlund.html |archive-date=2008-06-12 }}, Oregon Historical Quarterly, winter 2007. |
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* {{cite web|url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/108.4/editor.html |title=Significant Events in the History of Celilo Falls |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202182940/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/108.4/editor.html |archive-date=2008-12-02 }}. Oregon Historical Quarterly 108.4 (2007). Retrieved on July 7, 2008. |
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* Binus, Joshua. {{cite web |url=http://ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=1662AFF4-E730-DED2-B9E73CA5DAE9ACF2 |title=Yakama Nation & US Corps Discuss Celilo Settlement}}, Oregon History Project, 2004. |
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Celilo Falls | |
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Wyam | |
Dipnet fishing at Celilo Falls in the 1950s | |
Location | Between Wasco County, Oregon and Klickitat County, Washington |
Coordinates | 45°38′58″N 120°58′41″W / 45.64945°N 120.97792°W |
Type | Segmented steep cascade; submerged since 1957 |
Watercourse | Columbia River |
Celilo Falls (Wyam, meaning "echo of falling water" or "sound of water upon the rocks," in several native languages) was a tribal fishing area on the Columbia River, just east of the Cascade Mountains, on what is today the border between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. The name refers to a series of cascades and waterfalls on the river, as well as to the native settlements and trading villages that existed there in various configurations for 15,000 years. Celilo was the oldest continuously inhabited community on the North American continent until 1957, when the falls and nearby settlements were submerged by the construction of The Dalles Dam.[1] In 2019, there were calls by tribal leaders to restore the falls.[2]
Geography
[edit]Main waterfall
[edit]The main waterfall, known variously as Celilo Falls, The Chutes, Great Falls, or Columbia Falls,[3] consisted of three sections: a cataract, called Horseshoe Falls or Tumwater Falls; a deep eddy, the Cul-de-Sac; and the main channel.[4] These features were formed by the Columbia River's relentless push through basalt narrows on the final leg of its journey to the Pacific Ocean. Frequently more than a mile (1.6 km) in width, the river was squeezed here into a width of only 140 feet (43 m).[5] The seasonal flow of the Columbia changed the height of the falls over the course of a year. At low water the drop was about 20 feet (6.1 m). In 1839, Modeste Demers investigated the area in some detail and described not just one fall but a great many, in different channels and with different qualities. He wrote, "The number and variety [of the channels and falls] are surprising. They are not all equally deep. The falls are from 3 to 12 and 15 feet high."[3] During the spring freshet in June and July, the falls could be completely submerged. The falls were the sixth-largest by volume in the world and were among the largest in North America.[6] Average annual flow was about 190,000 ft3/sec (5,380 m3/s), and during periods of high water or flood, as much as 1,240,000 ft3/sec (35,113 m3/s) passed over the falls.[4]
The Narrows and The Dalles
[edit]Celilo Falls itself was the first in a series of cascades and rapids known collectively as The Narrows or The Dalles, stretching for about 12 miles (19 km) downstream.[7] Over that length, the river dropped 82 feet (25 m) at high water and 63 feet (19 m) at low water.[3]
Three miles (4.8 km) below Celilo Falls was a stretch of rapids known variously as the Short Narrows, Ten Mile Rapids, the Little (or Upper) Dalles, or Les Petites Dalles. These rapids were about 1 mile (1.6 km) long and 250 feet (76 m) wide. Ten miles (16 km) below Celilo Falls was another stretch of rapids, this one known as the Long Narrows, Five Mile Rapids, the Big (or Lower) Dalles, Les Grandes Dalles, or Grand Dalles. This stretch of rapids was about 3 miles (4.8 km) long, and the river channel narrowed to 75 feet (23 m). Immediately downstream were the Dalles Rapids (or Wascopam to the local natives), about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long. Here the river dropped 15 feet (4.6 m) in a tumult much commented on by early explorers.[3]
The Long Narrows and the Dalles Rapids are sometimes grouped together under names such as Grand Dalles, Les Dalles, Big Dalles, or The Dalles. One early observer, Ross Cox, noted a three-mile "succession of boiling whirlpools."[3] Explorer Charles Wilkes described it as "one of the most remarkable places upon the Columbia." He calculated that the river dropped about 50 feet (15 m) over 2 miles (3.2 km) here. During the spring freshet, the river rose as much as 62 feet (19 m), radically altering the nature of the rapids.[3] Fur trader Alexander Ross wrote, "[The water] rushes with great impetuosity; the foaming surges dash through the rocks with terrific violence; no craft, either large or small, can venture there safely. During floods, this obstruction, or ledge of rocks, is covered with water, yet the passage of the narrows is not thereby improved."[3]
History
[edit]Fishing and trading
[edit]Our waters shall be free: free to serve the uses and purposes of their creation by a Divine Providence.
—Portland investor and civic leader Joseph Nathan Teal, at the canal's opening ceremony.[8]
For 15,000 years, native peoples gathered at Wyam to fish and exchange goods.[9] They built wooden platforms out over the water and caught salmon with dipnets and long spears on poles as the fish swam up through the rapids and jumped over the falls.[10] Historically, an estimated fifteen to twenty million salmon passed through the falls every year, making it among the greatest fishing sites in North America.[11]
Celilo Falls and The Dalles were strategically located at the border between Chinookan and Sahaptian speaking peoples and served as the center of an extensive trading network across the Pacific Plateau.[12] Artifacts from the original village site at Celilo suggest that trade goods came from as far away as the Great Plains, Southwestern United States, and Alaska.[13] There are also numerous rock art drawings at the head of the falls. This demonstrates the site to not just be important for trading purposes. It acted as a melting pot for the cultures which fished and traded there.[14] When the Lewis and Clark Expedition passed through the area in 1805, the explorers found a "great emporium...where all the neighboring nations assemble," and a population density unlike anything they had seen on their journey.[15] Accordingly, historians have likened the Celilo area to the "Wall Street of the West."[16] The Wishram people lived on the north bank, while the Wasco lived on the south bank, with the most intense bargaining occurring at the Wishram village of Nix-luidix.[12] Charles Wilkes reported finding three major native fishing sites on the lower Columbia — Celilo Falls, the Big Dalles, and Cascades Rapids, with the Big Dalles being the largest. Alexander Ross described it as the "great rendezvous" of native traders, as "the great emporium or mart of the Columbia."[3] Pinnipeds such as sea lions and seals followed salmon up the Columbia as far as Celilo Falls. In 1841 George Simpson wrote "these animals ascend the Columbia in great numbers in quest of the salmon.[17]
Navigation
[edit]The seasonal changes in the Columbia's flow, high in summer and low in winter, affected Celilo Falls dramatically. Lewis and Clark reached Celilo Falls in the late autumn when the water was relatively low, turning the falls into a major barrier. In contrast, when David Thompson passed Celilo Falls in July 1811, the high water obscured the falls and made his passage through the Columbia Gorge relatively easy.[18] Modeste Demers wrote about the seasonal change in 1839: "One may be astonished to learn that these chutes, so terrible at low water, are smooth and still at very high water, which does not happen every year. Then it is that, instead of fearing them, the voyageurs hasten to approach them, to light their pipes and rest."[3] More difficult was the Long Narrows, or Big Dalles, ten miles below Celilo Falls. This section of the river was impassable during high water. During the autumn low water they were passable but with unloaded boats only, and even then the passage was very dangerous. "They are never passed without dread," wrote François Blanchet in 1839.[3] Narcissa Whitman asserted in 1836 that over one hundred "white lives" had been lost at the Dalles.[19]
In the 1840s and 1850s, American pioneers began arriving in the area, traveling down the Columbia on wooden barges loaded with wagons. Many lost their lives in the violent currents near Celilo.[20] In the 1870s, the Army Corps of Engineers embarked on a plan to improve navigation on the river. In 1915, they completed the 14-mile (23 km) Celilo Canal, a portage allowing steamboats to circumvent the turbulent falls. Though the canal's opening was greeted with great enthusiasm and anticipation, the canal was scarcely used and was completely idle by 1919.[21]
Flooding by the dam
[edit]As more settlers arrived in the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s and 1940s, civic leaders advocated a system of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River. They argued that the dams would improve navigation for barge traffic from interior regions to the ocean; provide a reliable source of irrigation for agricultural production; provide electricity for the World War II defense industry; and alleviate the flooding of downriver cities, as occurred in the 1948 destruction of Vanport, Oregon.
Aluminum production, shipbuilding, and nuclear production at the Hanford site contributed to a rapid increase in regional demand for electricity. By 1943, fully 96 percent of Columbia River electricity was being used for war manufacturing.[22] The volume of water at Celilo Falls made The Dalles an attractive site for a new dam in the eyes of the Corps of Engineers.
Throughout this period, native people continued to fish at Celilo, under the provisions of the 1855 Treaties signed with the Yakama Nation,[23] the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs,[24] and the Walla Walla, Umatilla, and Cayuse,[25] which guaranteed the tribes' ancient "right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed stations." In 1947, the federal government convened Congressional hearings and concluded that the proposed dam at The Dalles would not violate tribal fishing rights under the treaties.[26] Subsequently, the government reached a monetary settlement with the affected tribes, paying $26.8 million for the loss of Celilo and other fishing sites on the Columbia.[27]
The Army Corps of Engineers commenced work on The Dalles Dam in 1952 and completed it five years later. On March 10, 1957, hundreds of observers looked on as a rising Lake Celilo rapidly silenced the falls, submerged fishing platforms, and consumed the village of Celilo, ending an age-old existence for those who lived there. A small Native American community exists today at nearby Celilo Village, on a bluff overlooking the former location of the falls.
In 2008 the Army Corps of Engineers completed a survey of the Celilo Falls site using sonar technology, in response to the 50th anniversary of the flooding of the falls. The survey revealed that the falls remain intact below the artificial lake, and that "rocky outcrops, carved basins and channels that match aerial photographs from the 1940s."[28]
Legacy
[edit]Celilo Falls retains great cultural significance for native peoples. Ted Strong of the Intertribal Fish Commission told one historian, "If you are an Indian person and you think, you can still see all the characteristics of that waterfall. If you listen, you can still hear its roar. If you inhale, the fragrances of mist and fish and water come back again."[26] In 2007, three thousand people gathered at Celilo Village to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the inundation of the falls.[29]
In Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the narrator, Chief Bromden, grows up in a native village near the waterfall. In one section, he encounters the government agents sent to appraise the land and negotiate with Bromden's father, the chief of the village at the time.
Artist and architect Maya Lin is working on interpretive artwork at Celilo for the Confluence Project, scheduled for completion in 2019.[30][31][32]
Restoration calls
[edit]Yakama and Lummi nation leaders called for a restoration of the falls in 2019, who noted that Indigenous peoples never agreed to the submergence of the falls. They cited that the river's temperature has become hotter with the reservoir each year and that there has been a large decline in salmon populations.[33] They also noted that the dam has destroyed fishing sites that were guaranteed to the tribes in treaties 150 years ago.[2] In response, Northwest RiverPartners issued a statement that the dam remains important for hydropower electricity generation for ports and businesses in the area.[33]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Dietrich, William (1995). Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-671-79650-X.
- ^ a b "Pacific Northwest tribes: Remove Columbia River dams". AP NEWS. 2021-04-20. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Gibson, James R. (1997). The Lifeline of the Oregon Country: The Fraser-Columbia Brigade System, 1811-47. University of British Columbia (UBC) Press. pp. 125–128. ISBN 0-7748-0643-5.
- ^ a b "World Waterfall database". Archived from the original on 2006-11-28. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ Dietrich, William (1995). Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. p. 80. ISBN 0-671-79650-X.
- ^ "World Waterfall Database". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27.
- ^ "The Dalles (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ J. B. Tyrell, ed., David Thompson: Narrative of his Explorations in Western America, 1784-1812 (Toronto, 1916, 496-97; "Address of Joseph Nathan Teal), The Dalles-Celilo Celebration, Big Eddy, Oregon (May 5, 1915," Oregon Historical quarterly, 16 (Fall 1916), 107-8. (As quoted in "The Columbia River's fate in the twentieth century". Archived from the original on 2016-01-10. Retrieved 2007-04-16.)
- ^ Barber, Katrine; Ed. William G. Robbins (2001). Narrative Fractures and Fractured Narratives: Celilo Falls in the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and the Yakama Nation Cultural Heritage Center. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press.
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- ^ Rohrbacher, George (January 2006). "Talk of the Past: The salmon fisheries of Celilo Falls". Common-Place. Archived from the original on 2007-11-11. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ a b Ronda, James P. (1984). Lewis & Clark among the Indians. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-3870-3. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
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ignored (help) [dead link] - ^ Center for Columbia River History. "Oregon's Oldest Town: 11,000 Years of Occupation". Archived from the original on 2008-02-15. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ Snow, Dean R. (2010). Archaeology of Native North America. Boston: Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-615686-4.
- ^ Cressman, L.S.; et al. (1960). "Cultural Sequences at the Dalles, Oregon: A Contribution to Pacific Northwest Prehistory". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 50 (10). American Philosophical Society: 1–108. doi:10.2307/1005853. hdl:2027/mdp.39076005656769. JSTOR 1005853. Archived from the original on 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ Alpert, Emily (2006-07-10). "Remembering Celilo Falls". The Dalles Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2006-10-08. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ Mackie, Richard Somerset (1997). Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific 1793-1843. Vancouver: University of British Columbia (UBC) Press. pp. 191–192. ISBN 0-7748-0613-3. online at MacKie, Richard (1997). Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843. UBC Press. ISBN 9780774806138. Archived from the original on 2016-04-26. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
- ^ Meinig, D.W. (1995) [1968]. The Great Columbia Plain (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classic ed.). University of Washington Press. pp. 37–38, 50. ISBN 0-295-97485-0.
- ^ The Lifeline of the Oregon Country, p. 42
- ^ "Waiilatpu Mission Resource Education Guide". Whitman Mission National Historic Site. 2004-11-14. Archived from the original (DOC) on 2008-02-28. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ Dietrich, William (1995). Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. p. 204. ISBN 0-671-79650-X.
- ^ Dietrich, William (1995). Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. p. 284. ISBN 0-671-79650-X.
- ^ "Treaty with the Yakama, 1855". Archived from the original on 2008-02-09. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ "Treaty of Wasco, Columbia River, Oregon Territory with the Taih, Wyam, Tenino, & Dock-Spus Bands of the Walla-Walla, and the Dalles, Ki-Gal-Twal-La, and the Dog River Bands of the Wasco". Archived from the original on 2007-12-19. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ "Treaty with the Walla Walla, Cayuse and Umatilla, 1855". Archived from the original on 2008-02-26. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ a b Dietrich, William (1995). Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. p. 378. ISBN 0-671-79650-X.
- ^ Dietrich, William (1995). Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. p. 376. ISBN 0-671-79650-X.
- ^ Rojas-Burke, Joe (November 28, 2008). "Sonar shows Celilo Falls are intact". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2008-12-01. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
- ^ Modie, Jonathan. "The Celilo Legacy commemoration brought together the tribes of the lower Columbia River and others to remember Celilo Falls, bringing a mix of sadness and nostalgia". Wana Chinook Tymoo. Archived from the original on 2008-05-15. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ "Confluence Project: Celilo Park". Archived from the original on January 26, 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ "Celilo Park". Confluence Project. Archived from the original on 2014-09-11. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
- ^ "FY2016-17 Competitive Process Special Appropriations Grant Awardee: CONFLUENCE Grant Project: CONFLUENCE PROJECT AT CELILO PARK". Archived from the original on 2018-03-03. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
- ^ a b "Northwest Tribes Call For Removal Of Lower Columbia River Dams". opb. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
External links
[edit]- http://www.offbeatoregon.com/H1009a_celilo-falls-part-of-once-wild-Columbia.html
- The Run of the River (The Memory Palace) http://thememorypalace.us/2015/08/run-of-the-river/ Archived 2017-09-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Woody, Elizabeth. "Recalling Celilo". Archived from the original on 2007-08-30..
- "Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission"., includes Celilo Legacy commemoration and Celilo history
- Fisher, Andrew H. "Tangled Nets: Treaty Rights and Tribal Identities at Celilo Falls". Archived from the original on 2007-11-21., Oregon Historical Quarterly, summer 2004.
- Fredlund, Diana. "The Corps of Engineers and Celilo Falls: Facing the Past, Looking to the Future". Archived from the original on 2008-06-12., Oregon Historical Quarterly, winter 2007.
- "Significant Events in the History of Celilo Falls". Archived from the original on 2008-12-02.. Oregon Historical Quarterly 108.4 (2007). Retrieved on July 7, 2008.
- Binus, Joshua. "Yakama Nation & US Corps Discuss Celilo Settlement"., Oregon History Project, 2004.
- "Celilo Falls". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- "Dalles Rapids". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- "The Dalles". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
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