Bonus Episode: Celilo Memories

Celilo Falls anchors this bonus episode as former residents and tribal elders recall its cultural, economic and spiritual centrality to Columbia River tribes; host Tony Schick and excerpts gathered with Confluence present memories from William Gallup Jr., Linda Miannis, Bryson Liberty and Wilbur Slokish. Speakers vividly describe the sound, smell and daily rhythms of falls-centered life — wooden scaffolds, 30-foot dip nets, morning fishing routines and salmon used in trade and ceremony — and they agree the 20th-century damming that flooded the village destroyed that way of life. The episode contrasts those losses and inadequate government compensation with recent technical news: a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers LiDAR survey done about 50 years after the dam suggests the falls remain intact under water, which interviewees interpret as a slim possibility for future restoration.