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Talu
Talu

There are so many stories contained in this photo. On the surface, this is along one of my favorite roads (located just behind the camera). Looking forward and across the mile of private land is one of my favorite public wilderness areas.

Beyond that is the Columbia River. The mountain on the horizon in Moses Mountain, named after Chief Moses, the leader of one of the local tribes that refused to go to the reservation until there just wasn't any land left to live (more than one band has this story).

The land across the river is the Colville Reservation. This is where a dozen different tribes were forcefully relocated in the early 1900s. Most had no connection to the land prior to being placed there.

For example, the Chief Joseph band of the Nez Perce were originally from northeastern Oregon. They arrived at Colville via Oklahoma (that's a whole mess of stories).

The land I'm standing on while taking this photo was used and lived upon by many different bands, mostly because of the river - Okanogan, Nespelum, Sanpoil, etc.

The river is dammed above and below this spot. Upriver is the Grand Coulee Dam, which flooded 21,000 acres (33 square mile) of native land, including thousands of known graves. Downriver is Chief Joseph Dam, named after the Nez Perce leader. Though the flooding was minimal, it blocked salmon from migrating upstream. The tribes have been fighting since the 1950s for fish ladders.

Farther back in time, the ice sheets dragged and rolled gigantic basalt and granite boulders, throwing them all across the landscape. The Wenatchee tribe has multiple stories of the "ice wall" that receded 13,000 years ago. Most of the tribes of the northwest were not nomadic.

Even farther back, this land marks the northern-most edge of the Columbia lava flows (around 16 million years ago). In places, you can see exactly where the basalt ends and the granite bedrock begins.

The granite formed along with what would later be called Washington state, the land cobbled together from various islands off the old coast of North America.

Most land has these stories, and it's our responsibility to find them and learn and tell what we can.

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'Talu'

Camera: Mamiya RB67
Film: Fomapan 100
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min

Washington
May 2024

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Taken on: May 4, 2024
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