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In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

  
  Common-place: Talk of the Past
One Sunday afternoon in March 1957 Celilo Falls and the ancient traditions of its fishing culture were drowned—smothered under the backwaters of The Dalles Dam.
Celilo Falls was the economic and spiritual center of the Indian world in the Pacific Northwest.
Celilo Falls had just been ripped from their heart; they were somewhat like Catholics who had just seen the Vatican bulldozed off the face of the earth.
www.common-place.org /vol-06/no-02/talk   (2734 words)

  
 Lewis and Clark in Charlottesville and beyond circa 1803.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In the Codex 1 version, for example, Lewis and Clark estimate that 9,140 Native people lived along the Columbia River from Celilo Falls downstream to the Pacific Ocean, including the large communities on Sauvie Island.
Patrick Gass was born in Falling Springs, Pennsylvania, on June 12, 1771.
York was still enslaved in May 1809, when Clark wrote that he had given him a “severe trouncing” for his insolence and sulkiness, possibly stemming from York’s forced separation from his wife the previous year.
www.charlottesville-area-real-estate.com /Lewis_And_Clark.html   (8078 words)

  
 Unit Information: Pacific Northwest Journeys of Discovery
In the summer of 1811 a team is sent from Fort Astoria, near the mouth of the Columbia River, to establish a fur trading post in the interior of the territory.
Chapter 2: Celilo Falls to the Snake River
As the Astorians travel up the Columbia, they encounter the untamed river and the people who live along its banks.
www.pacificnorthwestjourneys.com /year2/unit.cfm?UID=4   (161 words)

  
 Fences
Wilson did not establish the chronological framework of his cycle until after the work had begun, and he skipped around in time.
Although "Radio Golf," the last play to be written, was set in the 1990's, "Gem of the Ocean," which immediately preceded it in production (it came to Broadway in the fall of 2004), was set in the first decade of the 20th century.
His first success, "Ma Rainey," which took place in a Chicago recording studio in 1927, depicted the turbulent relationship between a rich but angry blues singer and a brilliant trumpet player who also wants to succeed in the white-dominated world of commercial music.
www.courttheatre.org /home/plays/0506/fences/studyguide/studyguide.shtml   (4598 words)

  
 1957 - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
March 8 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal
March 10 - Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed inundating Celilo Falls and ancient indian fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon.
March 13 - The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/1/9/5/1957.html   (1970 words)

  
 2005 OHQ Palmer Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He is currently finishing a book on the evolution of regional identity in relation to place in Arequipa, southern Peru.
“Tangled Nets: Treaty Rights and Tribal Identities at Celilo Falls"
Since the days when the fur trade dominated the Pacific Northwest, Euro-American ideas of private property have affected Native Americans' relationships to natural resources.
www.ohs.org /publications/quarterly/05palmer_award.cfm   (483 words)

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