Aerial View of Kettle Falls Circa 1938

ID: 4950 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.

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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: 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

By Tara Justine

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.