Celilo Falls Postcard Acrylic Print

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I found this great postcard, showing the fishing platforms of the Indians fishing at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River. The Falls were flooded by The Dalles Dam in 1957.
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Wikipedia says about Celilo Falls
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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 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

The main waterfall, known variously as Celilo Falls, The Chutes, Great Falls, or Columbia Falls,...

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