Confluence Library

Brigette McConville is a cultural educator from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Spring. She runs Salmon King Fisheries with her husband, Sean McConville.

This gallery features photographs of rock art. The Celilo Falls area was rich in rock art prior to its flooding.

Toma Villa is a muralist, painter, carver, and sculptor from the Yakama Nation.

This gallery features photographs of young women taken near Celilo Village between 1902-1938.

This gallery features images of children through Celilo Village in daily life, at work and play.

This gallery features photographs of fishing at Celilo Falls.

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.

After a turbulent industrial past, the Sandy River Delta required significant restoration in the late 2000s to make it a safe recreational area and a thriving natural habitat, full of native plants, birds, and animals.

This is an excerpt from an interview with Chief Delvis Heath. Chief Delvis Heath tells a story of elderly Native woman who predicted the coming of the pioneers and later, the end of the world.

Roberta Conner discusses Celilo Falls, traditional lifeways, and how oral traditions carry important truths in a episode of the Confluence Podcast.