WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.870 --> 00:00:15.719 Lisa Hunt: hello, my name is Lisa hunt and the title of my poster presentation is damning cilla falls morning a miracle. 2 00:00:23.730 --> 00:00:42.960 Lisa Hunt: The drowning of saliva falls by the dalles down on the Columbia river, which is located 70 miles east of portland Oregon as a heartbreaking tale of loss of culture land economic resources at a sacred way of life for the native people and the surrounding area. 3 00:00:44.220 --> 00:01:03.330 Lisa Hunt: They had depended on the generous number of salmon that had been provided for thousands of years, so level falls, or why am, which means the echo of falling water was the greatest fishing area in the Pacific Northwest possibly even North America. 4 00:01:04.470 --> 00:01:19.260 Lisa Hunt: Local tribes, as well as others from far and wide utilize this revered space to lay bristly and religiously bring in literally tons of salmon daily over the six month season. 5 00:01:20.340 --> 00:01:36.750 Lisa Hunt: On march 10 1957 the echoing sounds of falling water upon the rocks was drowned out by the cries of the people it felt to them as if they were being flooded under the water of this sacred place. 6 00:01:48.960 --> 00:02:03.960 Lisa Hunt: the beauty of what was once delilah falls is indescribable the visions of the jagged cliffs and cascading waterfalls and do are now only in descriptive stories pictures videos and memories. 7 00:02:04.830 --> 00:02:20.250 Lisa Hunt: It was an ingenious and incredibly brave way how the natives fish there and they were rewarded by repeated catches of 3040 and sometimes even 50 pounds salmon by the tons which is unheard of today. 8 00:02:21.570 --> 00:02:29.070 Lisa Hunt: The dry wins and landscapes around delilah falls was ideal for the drying and preservation of the salmon. 9 00:02:31.590 --> 00:02:38.640 Lisa Hunt: This area was a gift given by the creator for the formation was perfect for this livelihood in every way. 10 00:02:40.200 --> 00:03:00.600 Lisa Hunt: catching salmon was a dangerous and rigorous process Native Americans built wooden planks platforms and scaffolds to get out over the rocks and then would have to use long spears or dip nets to catch the salmon as they swam up the rapids and waterfalls. 11 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:26.250 Lisa Hunt: That day and march of 1957 six hours after the floodgates of the damn at the dalles were opened the place the lifeblood the economic livelihood and religious significance for generations of people slowly disappeared. 12 00:03:27.480 --> 00:03:37.230 Lisa Hunt: The shock and grief over the loss still run strong with each generation who remembers it firsthand or hear stories from the past. 13 00:03:38.310 --> 00:03:45.420 Lisa Hunt: When the leaders of the yuma Tele walla walla yakima and nez perce tribes signed the Treaties of. 14 00:03:47.550 --> 00:04:02.580 Lisa Hunt: They were guaranteed continued hunting and fishing rights in their usual and a custom places the Treaties altered their lives, but the changes coming to this area would be far greater than they could have imagined at that time. 15 00:04:03.660 --> 00:04:16.560 Lisa Hunt: At the signing of the Treaty saliva falls was still the prime hub for fishing and trading, it was a source of wealth and life that was promised and included in the Treaties, they signed. 16 00:04:24.180 --> 00:04:35.250 Lisa Hunt: So I love village homeland for mostly federally unrecognized mid Colombian river people was forcibly relocated to the far side of the railroad and highway. 17 00:04:35.940 --> 00:04:55.620 Lisa Hunt: away from the River the dam not only destroyed this beautiful and bountiful fishing site it forced relocation and violated treaty rights for the recognized tribal Members who fish there, it was also an infringement upon religious and ceremonial traditions. 18 00:04:56.700 --> 00:05:08.430 Lisa Hunt: The Federal Government had purchased a small allotment of land in 1948 for the relocation of silla village prior to the construction of the dow's down. 19 00:05:09.750 --> 00:05:22.200 Lisa Hunt: without regard to Federal and State statutes over sanitary or quality living conditions World War Two surplus housing was used, along with other faulty construction. 20 00:05:23.400 --> 00:05:28.560 Lisa Hunt: This caused rapid deterioration throughout the village homes and other buildings. 21 00:05:36.060 --> 00:05:50.100 Lisa Hunt: Things over the next 50 years did not improve for the families who chose to remain at survival village poverty stricken with the fishing access very limited families and during it silla village struggled horribly. 22 00:05:51.270 --> 00:06:03.600 Lisa Hunt: so little village is now home to an approximate 100 native residents improvements only began in 2007 50 years after the drowning of saliva falls. 23 00:06:04.710 --> 00:06:14.160 Lisa Hunt: The corps of engineers built a new village longhouse in 2005 and, finally, new homes were built in 2007. 24 00:06:18.030 --> 00:06:36.240 Lisa Hunt: And ethnographic survey of saliva village could be a data instrument that could provide theories of change and social adjustments under pressure researching how the inundation of saliva falls in 1957 impacted the current residents of saliva village. 25 00:06:37.260 --> 00:06:46.320 Lisa Hunt: This could also provide statements of their current livelihood after 50 years of waiting to finally receive necessary renovations. 26 00:06:47.700 --> 00:07:06.420 Lisa Hunt: Surveys could contribute qualitative analysis of the opinions and status of individuals, families and the Community and could offer an opportunity to gauge the emotional physical and economic impact in their current lives. 27 00:07:10.200 --> 00:07:23.640 Lisa Hunt: Though the abundance of the salmon has rapidly declined along the Columbia river Native Americans who still fish there are thankful for what they have overcome and what they have achieved to survive. 28 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:37.830 Lisa Hunt: native people continue yearly celebrations of thanks to their creator and the longhouse at saliva village and straw shot show strong attempts to keep their cultural alive. 29 00:07:38.760 --> 00:07:46.530 Lisa Hunt: It shows resistance to allow what happened to not completely take away from them what once made them river people. 30 00:07:47.460 --> 00:08:00.450 Lisa Hunt: They have and will continue to survive this ordeal and make sure the following generations never forget the sacredness of their past and fight to encourage hopefulness for their future. 31 00:08:02.280 --> 00:08:03.120 Lisa Hunt: This is what. 32 00:08:04.320 --> 00:08:11.430 Lisa Hunt: The area that is now referred to as delilah lake this area, right here was where the falls once existed. 33 00:08:12.750 --> 00:08:29.040 Lisa Hunt: This section here was were so little village used to be, it is now an state park and Oregon on the Far East side of the State park as a fence stuff fishing access for the natives and it is consists only of. 34 00:08:30.180 --> 00:08:31.950 Lisa Hunt: A boat launch and a dog. 35 00:08:32.970 --> 00:08:41.190 Lisa Hunt: over here is now the current location of silla village, on the other side of the interstate and the railroad. 36 00:08:44.640 --> 00:08:46.320 Lisa Hunt: Thank you so much for your time.