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“At Celilo Falls, the energy of the water was really powerful. I could just feel the mist spray your face, even if you stood far away. The falls had a roar that was so loud you could hear it from miles and miles away. Even in the next town over, The Dalles, you could hear it. It was an echo that you could feel in your heart.” Read this piece by Linda Meanus, about her memories of Celilo Falls.
Listen to this podcast from the archives. This episode of Oregon Territory first aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting on March 9, 2007, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the flooding of Celilo Falls.
In this installment of Stories from River shorts, Bryson Liberty tells funny stories from Celilo Falls and a few facts about fishing and fish runs are related.
This gallery features photographs of fishing at Celilo Falls.
Johnny Jackson (Yakama, Cascades) talks about fishing at Celilo Falls with his family.
Aurelia Stacona (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs) talks about falling into the Celilo Falls as a child.
Wilbur Slockish (Yakama, Klickitat) talks about finding Shoshone Falls, ID and listening to the falls crash.
Kettle Falls was the largest waterfall of the Columbia River. Kettle Falls was for over 10,000 years a major indigenous fishing and trade site. In 1940, they were dammed by the Grand Coulee and formed Lake Roosevelt.
Max Corpuz, a Yakama fisherman, talks about the important of fishing, heritage, and Celilo.
In this excerpt, Bryson Liberty talks about how many people came to Celilo in the fall and also talks about the hundred-year-old shacks at Celilo.
In this excerpt, Bryson Liberty talks about seeing Celilo with his grandparents and aunt, as well as the trade at Celilo.
This gallery features images of bridges and roads near Celilo Village. Around the turn of the twentieth century, a number of bridges and roads were put in along the Oregon-Washington border. These roads and bridges were a mixed blessing, as they allowed more fishermen access to the falls, but meant that fish became harder to come by and led to undesirable traffic transversing Celilo Village and bringing tourists.
This gallery features images of children through Celilo Village in daily life, at work and play.
This gallery features photographs of young women taken near Celilo Village between 1902-1938.
This curriculum is often used by schools that are part of Confluence in the Classroom. Teaching a curriculum such as this to students better prepares them for having the Native educator in the classroom.
The theme of this video is Celilo Falls. Five Native individuals talk about Celilo Falls and the Columbia River. By Tule Films with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Bryson Liberty (Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla) talks about funny stories from Celilo Falls, including a man who regularly fell in and a man who crawled across Celilo Falls for a date.
Bill Yallup Jr (Yakama, Rock Creek) talks about the wealth of Celilo Falls and its trade importance.
A new children’s book by Warm Springs Elder Linda Meanus is hitting shelves this June, entitled My Name is LaMoosh. In today’s episode, we talk to Linda as well as Dr. Katy Barber (PSU) who supported her in this project.
“During the winter, I listened to my father telling me Native legends to put me to sleep. He told the legends over and over again. I was covered up with many quilts made by long hands by Mom, Aunty, and Grandma. There would be the crackling of the fire in the wood stove while the winter wind blew outside. I was safe and secure”…Read this article by Ed Edmo on Storytelling.