Oneonta (sidewheeler)
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The Oneonta was a sidewheel steamboat that operated on the Columbia River from 1863 to 1877.
Oneonta meeting portage train at Upper Cascades, Wash. Terr., 1867
Oneonta near upper Cascades, in 1867
1865 newspaper advertisement for Oneonta running on the middle Columbia
Celilo Falls
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Celilo Falls 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. The name refers to a ser
Oneonta (sidewheeler)
…between the Cascade Rapids eastward to The Dalles, where another longer stretch of whitewater. The rapids east of The Dalles were generally known as Celilo Falls. There were portages around both sets of rapids. Originally these were just tracks, but they were gradually replaced by railways, first drawn by mules…
Dipnet fishing at Celilo Falls in the 1950s
Native salmon fishermen at Celilo Falls. Russell Lee, September 1941.
Fishing sites existed along the entire length of The Narrows. Russell Lee, September 1941.
Native Americans drying salmon, circa 1900