Death of Celilo Falls

by Katrine Barber

Book Overview

For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honored their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile stretch of the Long Narrows on the Columbia River. Although the Indian community of Celilo Village survives to this day as Oregon's oldest continuously inhabited town, with the construction of The Dalles Dam in 1957, traditional uses of the river were catastrophically interrupted. Most non-Indians celebrated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295985461
• ISBN13: 9780295985466
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher