Aerial View of Kettle Falls Circa 1938

ID: 4950 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.
This file appears in: The Ceremony of Tears

This is an aerial photograph of Kettle Falls taken just a few years before the Ceremony of Tears and the waters of Lake Roosevelt rose.

This file appears in: The Ceremony of Tears

By Tara Justine
For centuries, Kettle Falls was a fishing spot and a gathering place. When Grand Coulee Dam began construction in 1933, thousands of years of history and tradition suddenly changed. By 1940, the waters of Lake Roosevelt began to rise, slowly…