Celilo Falls (/ səˈlaɪloʊ /; [1] called 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 …

At Celilo Falls, the Columbia's riverbed constricted to a passageway as narrow as forty feet across, producing what nineteenth-century observer Alexander Ross described as "great impetuosity” where “the foaming surges dash through the rocks with terrific violence."

2012年2月10日 · On March 10, 1957, the massive steel and concrete floodgates of newly completed The Dalles Dam on the Columbia River are closed, and within hours Celilo Falls, approximately 13 miles upstream, disappears beneath the rising waters.

For centuries Indians caught the giant chinook and other food salmon that struggled to make their way upstream through the rocky barrier of tumbling waters and swift, narrow channels of the Columbia River known as Celilo Falls, or Wy-am.

2023年11月28日 · Celilo Falls and the Narrows of the Columbia River were an almost ten-mile stretch of river from the present-day Celilo Village to The Dalles. This stretch of turbulent water and rocky banks has always been an important meeting place.

2016年5月28日 · For at least 9,000 years, Celilo Falls was a center of trade and Native American social and spiritual life. It was an iconic piece of Oregon's landscape until the federal...

2024年12月5日 · Wy-am, or Celilo Falls, once one of North America’s largest waterfalls, offered life-sustaining salmon and served as a gathering place for thousands of Native Americans for more than 10,000 years. The profound significance of this site is still felt today.

2019年3月12日 · At Celilo, the water cascaded over 40-foot-tall basalt cliffs that formed a horseshoe nearly spanning the river. Archaeological evidence shows that Native Americans were fishing for...

2025年3月11日 · Every year, massive Chinook salmon surged through the falls, drawing Indigenous people from across the continent to fish, trade, and celebrate their deep connection to the river (NWPCC, n.d.). But in 1957, this ancient way of life changed forever.

2020年11月27日 · Celilo Falls Portage is a High Potential Historic Site on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. On October 22, 1805, the expedition reached Celilo Falls, where the river “divided into Several narrow chanels which pass through a hard black rock forming Islands of rocks at this Stage of the water, on those Is­lands of rocks [were] great ...