Drying Salmon

ID: 685
This file appears in: The Creation of the Falls: The Indian Falls

Paul Kane's illustration of a Lakes Indian camp near Kettle Falls. This camp shows the methods used by Salishan peoples of the Upper Plateau to preserve salmon.

Reproduced from Wanderings of an Artist.

Source: Spokane Public Library, Northwest Room

This file appears in: The Creation of the Falls: The Indian Falls

By Clayton Hanson
You are now looking at the Lower Falls of the Spokane River. This site was important in both the legends and daily lives of the Spokane, the Coeur d'Alene and others in this region. In one story, the Spokane River and its gorge were formed…