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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…

25 p. : color maps, illustrations, tables

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…

Tommy Yallup- Celilo Indian attorney- well educated.

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

Wrapped.

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

Indian boy catches nice Chinook salmon

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

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

Indian holding two heavy Chinook salmon which he will sell.

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

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

Close-up view of dip bag net.

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.

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

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

Indian woman picking bones form dried, shredded salmon.

Indian boys enjoying themselves in cable car.

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