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Indian woman near cable landing. Like many white women you know she had sons in the service-- three of them.

Indian boys enjoying themselves in cable car.

Indian woman picking bones form dried, shredded salmon.

Chief Tommy Thompson- Celilo Falls. Note braids wrapped in flannel.

"Day's End"- Old fish wheel revolved and caught fish- now outlawed.

Cable car transportation from shore to fishing islands.

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.

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

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

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…

Indians making own nets

Close-up view of dip bag net.

Indian Fishing with dip bag net. Not rope around Indian.

Indian pulls dip bag net out of water with salmon. Note net does not collapse.

Indian holding two heavy Chinook salmon which he will sell.

Fish buyer weighs salmon and pays Indian. some Indians make much money.

10 year old Indian boy fishes with his Dad's dip bag net- bashfully

Indian boy catches nice Chinook salmon

Children Playing with their dog. This is a makeshift summer home on island.

Wrapped.

Indian woman on right canned 96 pints- pressure cooker. Here they are drying skin and backbone.

Tommy Yallup- Celilo Indian attorney- well educated.

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…

25 p. : color maps, illustrations, tables

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…

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.

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

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

View of Celilo Falls- Homes of Indians and Indians Fishing