October 2009
1 post
Google stares a green opportunity in the face
RE < C.
This equation, which comes to us courtesy of Time Magazine’s issue of October 5 , translates as “renewable energy costs less than coal.” It appears in an article about Bill Weihl, “Google’s new green-energy czar,” who is shown wrapped in a sheet of Mylar.
Weihl, one of three featured “Heroes of the Environment,” is the former MIT professor leading Google’s current campaign “to help...
April 2009
1 post
Do you recall the popcorn wagon at Celilo Falls in...
My grandfather and I used to sell popcorn, hot dogs and pop at Celilo Falls in the fiftys before the Falls were flooded. We sold these item out of a Dodge van that he made a popcorn wagon out of. We would drive from Portland on Friday and stay until Sunday. We slept in the popcorn wagon and I can remember the roar of the river and the drum from the bone game that was held near by. I have been...
March 2009
8 posts
Update on Cal Crook photo exhibit →
From the online newsletter of the Spokane Tribe.
Questions & Answers
Q: How will we replace the lost electricity?
A: Put progressives in charge of developing alternative sources — something that should have started with a fury in the 1970s when we had our first wake-up call. Innovators are lurking in the shadows, like mammals waiting for the dinosaurs to drop. Give them free rein. Provide incentives. Get the American people behind it. With President Barack Obama...
"Voyage of a Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia...
“On the morning of June 18, 1990, high up in the Canadian Rockies, Robin Cody pushed his sixteen-foot, forty-seven-pound Kevlar canoe through tall grass and mud to launch it on peaceful Columbia Lake, the nominal source of the river that heaves more water into the Pacific Ocean than any other in North or South America: the Columbia. For the next eighty-two days, Cody would steer his canoe around...
Excerpt from “Voyage of a Summer Sun”
I was twelve, maybe thirteen, when my mother packed the family in the green Chevy and Dad drove us to Celilo Falls. We took the cliff-snaking old gorge highway out of the Willamette Valley, past The Dalles, to this hard-baked treeless land where the Columbia thundered into rocky chutes and broken islands, cascading over crooked flat steps in the riverbed. The river frothed and boiled at the foot...
"Celilo Stories: New Conversations About an...
Notes from the conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the drowning of Celilo Falls, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, March 17-18, 2007.
Keynote Speaker Charles Wilkinson, Moses Lasky Professor of Law, University of Colorado at Boulder:
Listening to stories of Indian life before Lewis and Clark has provided “the purest joy of my professional life.” … “We are...
1948 Celilo Falls photographs by Cal Crook at...
The Brick Wall Gallery will feature photos of Celilo Falls taken by Cal Crook in 1948. The exhibition opens Friday, April 3rd with the First Friday Artwalk (until 8:30 p.m.) and the photos will be on display for the rest of the month. The gallery is at 530 W. Main on the skywalk just east of Macy’s in downtown Spokane.
February 2009
11 posts
Restoring Celilo Falls →
Tom Kloster writes eloquently about what it would take to restore the falls.
Relocation and the Celilo Village Community →
“The Celilo people wanted to remain by the bones of their ancestors…”
Celilo Legacy Blog →
The Celilo Legacy Project is the work of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC).
Celilo Falls →
About Celilo Falls & CRITFC: “I used to fish at Celilo Falls before The Dalles Dam was built. We used to be able to fish all year long. We caught lots of different kinds of fish - spring chinook, summer chinook, bluebacks, fall chinook, steelhead, and coho. When the fish were coming in good, I could catch one ton of salmon a day. And, it didn’t take a lot of fancy gear or expensive...
Destruction of Celilo Falls on the Columbia River →
According to legend Celilo Falls was demolished. The rumor had it the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blasted the falls to ruins. Recent detailed sonar maps reveal a virtually unchanged Celilo Falls beneath the murky water of the Columbia River.
The People and Salmon of Celilo Falls →
“Survival of the salmon has always meant more than just food for the Indian people. Indians have long recognized that if they are to survive and if their children’s children are to survive, it will be because the salmon survives. It is their legacy.” -Bill Frank Jr.
Restore Celilo Falls!
It’s 1942. I stand above Celilo Falls, holding tight to my father’s hand. Spray stings my face. Water thunders in my ears and pounds a drumbeat in the black basalt beneath my feet. Native fishermen lean from flimsy scaffolds, thrusting nets on long poles into the turbulence below.
It was a magical place before The Dalles Dam reservoir swallowed the falls, drowning tradition that spanned...
