Skinpah
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The Skinpah were a Sahaptin-speaking people of the Tenino dialect living along the northern bank of the Columbia River in what is now south-central Washington. They were first recorded as the E-nee-sh
Portrait of Skinpah chief Mancemuckt
Native salmon fishermen at Celilo Falls, c. 1930s – c. 1940s.
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
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