Mr. Allen Pinkham will be speaking this Thursday November 6th at 4:30 PM at College Hall. Mr. Pinkham is a Nez Perce elder who will speak about Native American fishing and share some of his first hand memories of fishing as a young man at Celilo Falls, a major fishing and trading center used by generations of Native Americans of the Columbian Plateau until its inundation in the 1950s. The talk is immediately followed by the exhibit opening of Memories of Celilo Falls (5:30-7:30 PM), which features a series of stunning photographs of fishing at Celilo in the 1940s, which are curated at the WSU Manuscripts Archives and Special Collections (MASC).
A link to the flyer for this very special event can be found here: https://www.libarts.wsu.edu/anthro/Museum/events/Flyer_Celilo%20Falls.pdf
The exhibit is a collaborative effort between members of the Nez Perce Tribe and students and faculty of the Museum of Anthropology, MASC and the School of Design and Construction. We thank Allen Pinkham, Josiah Pinkham, and Nakia Williamson, members of the Nez Perce Tribe for their contribution to this project and to our sponsors, including the WSU Manuscripts Archives and Special Collections (MASC), the Plateau Center, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Anthropology, and the Museum of Anthropology.
