what is celilo falls?

Celilo Falls (“sell-LYE-low”), near the present-day city of The Dalles, Oregon, was the most important salmon fishing and cultural gathering site in the entire Columbia River basin for thousands of years. In 1957, The Dalles Dam gates closed, choking back the river, submerging the falls, and devastating the native peoples.

As a writer, environmentalist and physician, Celilo Falls inspires me to the action prescribed by my Jewish tradition of tikkun olam — the mandate to work to heal and repair the world. (Read more about tikkun olam). Biologists, environmentalists and Native American look to dams as underlying obstacles to ecosystemic, cultural and personal health. As a physician, I work with you to find what hinders your physical and mental health, to help uncover and restore your power, purpose and joy.

 

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