Listen "Celilo Falls and the Culture of Death"
Episode Synopsis
The story of Celilo falls is the story of the Pacific Northwest. Pictures of Indian people dip netting for the giant salmon that once freely made their way up the Columbia to a Lower Snake river now clogged and obstructed by 14 dams, many with navigation locks, may be seen on-line, a remnant of a past destroyed for "progress," shipping, trade, getting wheat to market through a region once controlled by the KKK, to threaten and silence Indian people sometimes by killing them and impoverishing and ravaging whole communities.
Over time the power went to aluminum manufacturing, a beneficiary of this genocide, used for military purposes, airplanes, ships, and all kinds of hardware for death.
This, the unvarnished truth still covered up, denied and avoided at all costs, generations later. Either we have the courage to face it or we don't.
In this episode we speak with Lana Jack, the last of her people in a tragic and emotional story, only she is left to tell.
And now it's Google continuing the dark legacy of an "American Dream," with Data Centers springing up, diverting creeks and mining aquifers in yet another water grab. for a company whose motto is and was "Do no harm." It is a supreme mastery of hypocritical obliteration, of a river, its people and the truth.
Over time the power went to aluminum manufacturing, a beneficiary of this genocide, used for military purposes, airplanes, ships, and all kinds of hardware for death.
This, the unvarnished truth still covered up, denied and avoided at all costs, generations later. Either we have the courage to face it or we don't.
In this episode we speak with Lana Jack, the last of her people in a tragic and emotional story, only she is left to tell.
And now it's Google continuing the dark legacy of an "American Dream," with Data Centers springing up, diverting creeks and mining aquifers in yet another water grab. for a company whose motto is and was "Do no harm." It is a supreme mastery of hypocritical obliteration, of a river, its people and the truth.
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