Primary Source Sets

In this photograph of Celilo Falls, taken by Archie W. McKeown and titled “Our Island,” there are two men fishing for salmon on the Columbia River. The photo was part of the 1959 book by McKeown called Come to Our Salmon Feast. Tribal citizens fished and traded at Celilo Falls thousands of years, and four tribal nations hold treaty rights to the area. Celilo Falls was destroyed by the United States government in 1957 when the 1855 treaties were ignored and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed construction of The Dalles Dam.¹

1. Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission. "Celilo Falls."