The Multnomah County Library is presenting a special exhibit in the John Wilson Special Collections from now until March 13, 2007.

 

Titled "Celilo Falls :  the 50th anniversary of the flooding of Wy-am,” this exhibit gleaned from its Oregon and Pacific Northwest collections consists of rare photographs, documents, maps and other materials, that show the importance to Native Americans and to the broader American society of Celilo Falls and other fishing sites on the Columbia River.

 

Materials include a 1948 issue of Saturday Evening Post with cover art of Celilo Falls by John Atherton; and an original 19th-century photograph by Arthur B. McAlpin and Charles Y. Lamb of an Indian fisher near Celilo from the late 19th century.

 

Other materials include William Clark's map from the rare first published account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the 1814 "Biddle" edition; a small pamphlet that defends David Sohappy Sr. and others caught in the "Salmon Scam" in the 1980s; Stewart Holbrook's The Columbia (1956); and a one-of-kind court document of Native testimony about fishing rights on the Columbia near the Dalles from 1916.

 

The exhibition is on view when the John Wilson Special Collections is open: Tuesday 2:30-5:30; Wednesday 3:30-7:00; Friday 10:00-2:00; Saturday 2:30-6:00