Before the flooding, the falls provided everything that the Celilo Wy-am people needed: from salmon, sturgeon, smelt, and eel to traditional roots and berries along the riverbanks.

Before the flooding, the falls provided everything that the Celilo Wy-am people needed: from salmon, sturgeon, smelt, and eel to traditional roots and berries along the riverbanks.

Fishing these falls was a rite of passage, like getting a driver’s license, but Wilbur Slockish never got to fish them. In the end, it was Celilo Falls that drowned. In 1957, when Wilbur was 13, the U ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The massive horseshoe-shaped Celilo Falls were submerged by a reservoir after The Dalles Dam was built in 1957 — this much is true.

And Celilo Falls was no exception. When The Dalles Dam’s doors closed at 10 a.m. on March 10, 1957, the falls were flooded in less than five hours, forming what is today Celilo Lake.

By David Sarasohn The fragile arc, looking like a finger's width of balsa wood and a millimeter of white paint, curled around the painted lines on the landscape model. The narrow path was designed ...

Warm Springs Tribal Elder Linda Meanus has written a book for young audiences that chronicles early memories of Celilo Falls on the Columbia River before they were flooded by The Dalles Dam.

The artist and architect behind the Vietnam Wall is creating a memorial to tribal history at the submerged Celilo Falls. The Meyer Memorial Trust supported a marquee art installation honoring the ...

CELILO VILLAGE — Fifty years of silence. A loss so big, it took tribes from all over the Northwest to count its measure in a commemoration over the weekend of the death of Celilo Falls 50 years ...

News / Life / Clark County Life Chronicling Celilo Falls childhood: Indigenous elder’s memoir ‘My Name is LaMoosh’ remembers vanished way of life OSU Press, Vancouver-based Confluence ...

Celilo Falls is visible again for the first time in 50 years. What it essentially shows is exactly what was here when the falls were inundated, when the dam's gates were closed.