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The Great River of the West

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  • A small spring that feeds into Columbia Lake, the source of the Columbia River, near Canal Flats, British Columbia 2015. Ancestral homeland of the Ktunaxa People.
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  • Columbia Lake, the source of the Columbia River, near Canal Flats, British Columbia.
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  • Broken branch, uppermost Columbia River, near Canal Flats, BC
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  • View from the number 13 tee at Riverside Golf Course, Fairmont Hot Springs, British Columbia, approximately 1.5 miles downstream from Columbia Lake.
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  • Historical marker, near Radium Hot Springs, Columbia Wetlands, British Columbia 2015
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  • Heart Graffiti, Columbia River, near Brisco British Columbia
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  • Looking south towards the Bugaboos / Purcell Range, Spillamacheen, BC.
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  • Abandoned log structure, Columbia Wetlands, near Parson British Columbia
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  • Stumps at low water, Kinbasket Lake, BC. Ancestral homeland of the Secwepemc, Ktunaxa, Syilx tmix, and Sinixt People.
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  • Stumps at low water, Upper Kinbasket Lake, British Columbia 2016
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  • ATV Tracks, Low Water, Kinbasket Lake, BC
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  • Camper at Kinbasket Lake, BC.
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  • Mica Dam, Columbia River, British Columbia. Mica Dam, is the first, or uppermost dam of 14 on the main stem of the Columbia. Completed in 1973 it stands 801 feet above the bedrock. Ancestral homeland of the Secwepemc, Ktunaxa, Syilx tmix, and Sinixt People.
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  • Downie RV Resort, Lake Revelstoke / Columbia River. British Columbia, 2016. Ancestral lands of the Secwepemc aka Shuswap, and Sinixt People.
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  • Revelstoke, British Columbia
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  • Clearcut, Upper Arrow Lake, BC
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  • Swimming Beach, Upper Arrow Lake, Nakusp, BC
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  • German Campers in rented RV, at Syringa Provincial Park, Lower Arrow Lake, near Castlegar, British Columbia Ancestral lands of the Sinixt People.
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  • Teck Cominco Lead-Zinc Smelter above the Columbia River in Trail, British Columbia, Canada .
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  • Trail, British Columbia
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  • View of the US - Canadian Border, near Trail, BC
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  • A view of the US Customs checkpoint at the US - Canada border crossing
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  • Quartzite Boulder with marks at the site of inundated Kettle Falls, Washington. Quartzite was commonly used for arrow and spear points, knives and other tools by the Native People. 2020
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  • Kettle Falls, Washington
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  • Kettle Falls Recreation Site, on Lake Roosevelt, near Kettle Falls WA. Kettle Falls - Shonitkwu in the native Salish language, was an ancient and important salmon fishing site for Native Americans, for more than nine thousand years. The falls were inundated by the rising waters of Lake Roosevelt backed up behind Grand Coulee dam in 1940. As no fish ladders were built at Grand Coulee native salmon are now extinct in Lake Roosevelt and upriver. The extinction of the Salmon destroyed a way of life for the Native People of the Colville. Native People whose ancestral lands Grand Coulee was built on, never benefitted from the irrigation waters, or were compensated for revenue from electricity generation produced by the dam. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation filed a lawsuit against the United States government, which was settled in 1994 for $53 million, plus $15.25 million annually from 1996 onward. On Aug. 16, 2019 members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation released 30 chinook salmon above Grand Coulee Dam in hopes the fish will spawn and the fry will pass downstream through the turbines of the dam, then grow to maturity in the ocean and return, where they will be captured and transported above the dam to repeat the cycle.
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  • View of Hell Gate, from Jones Bay. Lake Roosevelt / Columbia River,  Washington Ancestral lands of the Sanpoil People.
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  • Grand Coulee Dam Triptych - Columbia River,  Washington
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  • Lighting Array, Grand Coulee Dam - Columbia River, Washington.  Ancestral land of the Sanpoil and Nespelem People.
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  • Apple boxes, Pateros, Washington
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  • Alcoa Aluminum Plant, Malaga, Washington. Ancestral land of the Wenatchi, Sinkuse and Yakama People
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  • Looking west towards Brewster, Washington at the Big Bend of the Columbia River. 2015 Ancestral land of the Sqilxw People.
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  • Looking south to Beverly Gap, along a section of the historic Sunset Highway / US Highway 10, near Vantage Washington
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  • Modern pictograph, Near Wanapum Dam, Washington 2020 This area of the Mid-Columbia is considered a culturally rich area. Archeological evidence shows Native people have occupied this region for more than 12,000 years, and continue today. There are numerous sites of petroglyphs and pictographs, many which were flooded by Wanapum and Priest Rapids dams.
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  • Looking south to Sentinel Gap, along a section Palouse to Cascades Trail, ancestral home of the Wanapum. Near Beverly Washington
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  • Looking east to Priest Rapids Dam from the Yakima Training Center, ancestral home of the Wanapum. 2020
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  • Vernita Bridge, Rte 24, Hanford Reach, Washington
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  • Distant view of the F Reactor plutonium production complex on the Hanford Site from Wayáwna. Ancestral land of the Wanapum and Walla Walla.
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  • Looking northwest towards Walúuk from Típlaš, aka White Bluffs, Hanford Reach.
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  • Target on Mulberry Tree, Hanford Reach, Washington.<br />
In 1990 two scientists sent jars of Mulberry Jam made from berries collected along the Hanford Reach to US Secretary of Energy James Watkins and Washington Governor Booth Gardner. The jars of jam, believed to be contaminated with radioactive Strontium 90, a byproduct of nuclear weapons production, was marked "Radioactive - Do Not Eat".  The jars were accompanied by a note from the senders, Norm Buske and his wife Linda Josephson, which read ``This mulberry jam is a token of the future hazard of unidentified, uncontained and unmanaged radioactivity at Hanford,''
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  • Birdhouse in tree at former home site, Richland Washington
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  • At the Confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers.
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  • Wáatpatukaykas, aka Cayuse Sisters, aka Twin Sisters, Wallula Gap, Washington<br />
Ancestral home of Umatilla, Walla Walla and Cayuse People.
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  • Looking North from Twin Sisters, Wallula Gap, Washington
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  • Looking southeast towards Xawiyá from Roosevelt Grade, near Roosevelt Washington
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  • Cape Horn East, Oregon after Carleton Watkins, Lily White and Mark Ruwedel.
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  • Fairbanks Gap, Washington
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  • Looking east towards Celilo Village, Oregon and across to Wishram Washington. Celilo, known as Wy-am is the ancestral home of the Wasco and Wishram people. The Falls at Wy-am, flooded by the Dalles Dam in 1957, were one of the most significant market places in all of North America for thousands of years.
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  • The Dalles Dam, Oregon
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  • Fisherman at Bonneville Dam, Oregon. Ancestral land of the Klickitat, Chilluckittequaw and Cowlitz People.
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  • Columbia Gorge, Skamania County Washington
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  • At the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, near Portland Oregon
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  • Sauvie's Cove, Sauvie's Island, Oregon - 2013, after Joel Sternfeld.<br />
Named Wappatoe Island by Lewis and Clark. Ancestral land of the Multnomah Band of Chinookan People.
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  • Front Porch, Second St, St. Helens Oregon
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  • View of Warrior Point, Sauvie's Island, with Mt Hood in the distance from St Helens Oregon
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  • Incoming Tide, Near Mayger Oregon - 2015<br />
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Ancestral lands of the Skilloot and Cathlamet People.
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  • Looking West From Near Altoona, Washington - 2015 Ancestral land of the Wahkiakum and Cathlamet People.
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  • Historical Marker, Lewis and Clark Campsite, near Altoona, Washington
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  • Aldrich Point, Oregon. 2020
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  • Log yard, Astoria, Oregon. 2020
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  • Driftwood structure, Chinook Washingion. 2020
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  • Low Tide, Ilwaco, Washington. Ancestral Land of the Lower Chinook People.
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  • Looking east from Cape Disappointment,  Washington 2015
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  • South Jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon. 2020<br />
After Robert Adams
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  • Picnic area, Cape Disappointment,  Washingion. 2020
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  • A view to the Pacific Ocean from Waikiki Beach, North Jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River, Washington. 2020
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