Yakima and Warm Springs Indians have an Easter festival to honor the beginning of Salmon fishing season in Celilo, Oregon.
As they have for centuries, tribes from the Columbia Basin gather in Celilo, a tiny town on the banks of the Columbia River where they prepare one hundred salmon on cedar spikes. This annual ceremony in April marks the return of the salmon and is a celebration of the providence of the Creator.
Yakima and Warm Springs Indians have an Easter festival to honor the beginning of Salmon fishing season in Celilo, Oregon.
Yakima and Warm Springs Indians have an Easter festival to honor the beginning of Salmon fishing season in Celilo, Oregon.
Yakima and Warm Springs Indians have an Easter festival to honor the beginning of Salmon fishing season in Celilo, Oregon.
Yakima and Warm Springs Indians have an Easter festival to honor the beginning of Salmon fishing season in Celilo, Oregon.
A mother and daughter pull salmon from their gill nets on their families’ platform. Bonneville Dam in the background. Indian Fishers at Cascade Locks near Portland, Oregon fish for Salmon on platforms that have been in their family for generations. The Indians are the only peoples with permits to fish this way on the Columbia River. They sell fresh Salmon to buyers from the area. They use traditional dip net and gill net fishing.
Yakima and Warm Springs Indians have an Easter festival to honor the beginning of Salmon fishing season in Celilo, Oregon.
Yakima and Warm Springs Indians have an Easter festival to honor the beginning of Salmon fishing season in Celilo, Oregon.
Yakima and Warm Springs Indians have an Easter festival to honor the beginning of Salmon fishing season in Celilo, Oregon.
I remember driving by, Celilo falls with my family on the way to grandmas house for the holidays up in, Walla Walla, Washington. it was always a treat when dad would pull the car over to the side of the road and let his children watch as the fisherman were pulling up the salmon just handover fist off of the falls on those scary looking platforms before the days and the dams. it is sad to think of this Celilol Falls, just submerged there waiting to be exposed again what a beautiful picture that will be and it will happen one day.
I remember driving by, Celilo falls with my family on the way to grandmas house for the holidays up in, Walla Walla, Washington. it was always a treat when dad would pull the car over to the side of the road and let his children watch as the fisherman were pulling up the salmon just handover fist off of the falls on those scary looking platforms before the days and the dams. it is sad to think of this Celilol Falls, just submerged there waiting to be exposed again what a beautiful picture that will be and it will happen one day.
I like the coloumbia river I also like hearing about tribes