Lana Jack (Celilo Wy-am) performs a dance in honor of her ancestors in February 2021. In the background is The Dalles Dam, which drowned Celilo Falls on March 10, 1957. For many thousands of years before the inundation, the falls was a gathering site for fishing, commerce, and culture for many tribes.
“Somehow, I was there at the flooding of the falls, even though I wasn't even born yet,” Jack told Nicole Greenfield, a writer for Natural Resources Defense Council, in 2021. “I can go back to that place in time and remember how our people, how my mothers, cried in travail. Because what you do to the river, you do to the salmon. And what you do to the salmon, you do to us.”
Josué Rivas (Mexica and Otomi) is an Indigenous Futurist, creative director, visual storyteller and educator working at the intersection of art, technology, journalism, and decolonization. His work aims to challenge the mainstream narrative about Indigenous peoples, cocreate with the community, and serve as a vehicle for collective healing.
He is a 2020 Catchlight Leadership Fellow, Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellow, founder of INDÍGENA, co-founder of Indigenous Photograph and Curator at Indigenous TikTok.
His work has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, Apple, Nike, and Converse amongst others.
Josué is a guest in the traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla (Portland).
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