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Celilo Park

 Sub-Series
Identifier: 2

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

This series consists of material related to planning and construction of the public art installations including designs, site plans, correspondence, contracts, and financial records. There are also eleven oversize models of the sites.

Dates

  • Creation: 2000-2013

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research. Series 3 and Series 5 contain unprocessed born-digital files on CDs, MiniDisks, Betacam SX, and VHS. Unprocessed content includes files from Confluence in the Schools, Confluence in the Classroom projects, recorded interviews, and footage from sites. For more information, please contact the Archives.

Historical Note

Celilo Falls is the most culturally and structurally complicated of the Confluence sites. For at least 12,000 years, Celilo was a sacred fishing ground where regional tribes caught giant Chinook salmon migrating upstream to spawn. It is estimated that during its peak flood season, the water flowing over the falls was ten times greater than Niagara. And where once there were over 4.5 million migrating salmon, today there are fewer than 100,000. In 1957, the Dalles Dam pool inundated this section of the Columbia ending a rich tribal food source along with thousands of years of ritual celebrations. Here, Lin plans to oversee the construction of a curving cantilevered bridge or pier that extends out over the river close to where the falls once raged.

Extent

From the Series: 46.65 Linear Feet (10 boxes, 16 tubes, 11 oversize models)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Whitman College and Northwest Archives Repository

Contact:
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Walla Walla WA 99362 United States
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