The dam that flooded Celilo is plastered with a huge, triumphantly waving American flat. The painting must be at least a story high.
It makes my cheeks burn and my gut tighten. Such a show of unfeeling power. A delicate balance of culture...the last oasis...a place of commerce, family, reunion, and pace. All destroyed so someone could say that they harnessed the river to save themselves money. So they could move and control that which God created.
Weddings are replaced with dull eddies. Trade is replaced with empty banks. The salmon struggle to return.
It makes my cheeks burn and my gut tighten. Such a show of unfeeling power. A delicate balance of culture...the last oasis...a place of commerce, family, reunion, and pace. All destroyed so someone could say that they harnessed the river to save themselves money. So they could move and control that which God created.
Weddings are replaced with dull eddies. Trade is replaced with empty banks. The salmon struggle to return.
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