Fishing for Salmon at Kettle Falls

ID: 4948 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives, Digital Archives. ~ Date: 1910-1940

This file appears in: The Ceremony of Tears: The rising waters of Lake Roosevelt ended a 10,000-year native tradition

Men fishing for salmon at Kettle Falls before Grand Coulee Dam was built.

This file appears in: The Ceremony of Tears: The rising waters of Lake Roosevelt ended a 10,000-year native tradition

The Ceremony of Tears: The rising waters of Lake Roosevelt ended a 10,000-year native tradition

As Kettle Falls, a popular Native American fishing and gathering spot slipped slipped below the surface of Lake Roosevelt, Indians gathered for one final ceremony.