Fishing at Celilo Falls
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This photo shows the elaborate construction of fishing platforms at Celilo Falls. Access to fishing sites and platforms increased from the mid-1930s to the 1950s with the availability of the cableway, visible in the background, which transported Indian fishermen across the river to the islands. Cableways were a type of gasoline-powered pulley system that the Seufert Brother Company used to transport fish from isolated fishing stations to the canneries. Indians who worked for the local canneries used the cableways to transport themselves back and forth from fishing locations to shore.