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Bookmark or Share- Celilo Falls Portage - U.S. National Park ServiceCelilo 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 numbers of Stacks of pounded Salmon.”
- Celilo Falls - The Oregon EncyclopediaAt 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."
- Celilo Falls - WikipediaCelilo 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 Oregon and Washington.
- Remembering Celilo Falls 62 years after it was silenced by The Dalles ...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...
- Celilo Falls - CRITFCFor 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.
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