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Indians making own nets

In September, when the run is on, Indians from many tribes fish on bank. By Concentrating their fishing during the months when the adult salmon are fighting their way up the river to spawn, the Indian fishermen are assured of large catches of…

Precarious Fishing Spot. Note cable car, falls, and platform.

Indians pulling in salmon with dip net. Note how net collapses.

Indians fishing from platforms at Celilo Falls. Supported by cables anchoring near the lips of narrow canyons where fishing is best, the wooden platforms are lowered down the canyon walls within easy reach of the roaring torrent of water.

Cable car transportation from shore to fishing islands

Cable car transportation from shore to fishing islands.

View of Celilo Falls- Homes of Indians and Indians Fishing

View of the canyon wall on the Oregon side showing Celilo Falls

Keaby gets on the bus as the owner looks wistfully on.

Kearby Chase looking good in front of a bus that workers took to work at Hanford. This bus is in Richland, Washington at the museum there.

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1 map: 32 x 58 cm.Scale: 2 in. = 1 mile.Red lines indicate irrigation ditches and flumes.In 1896 the Lewiston Water and Power Company began work on a series of ditches and flumes which would carry water from Asotin Creek into the area that would…

1 map col. ; 65 x 88 cm. Scale [1:68,760]. 1 in. to 6 miles. Shows roads, rail roads in operation, projected rail roads, post offices, and saw mills. The Yakima Indian reservation, at the lower left corner of this map, was created in 1855. In…

1 map ; 39 x 38 cm.Relief shown by hachuresShows the Columbia River region in the Pacific Northwest. Shows the area by a broken black line. Shows mountains, lakes and towns Appendix TT: Improvement of the Willamette River above Portland, Oregon --…