Dallesport is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Klickitat County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,328 at the 2020 census. The location was traditionally a site of the Wishram tribe, who lived on the north bank of the Columbia River about 10 miles in both directions from The Dalles, Oregon. Although the Wishrams wer…
Dallesport is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Klickitat County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,328 at the 2020 census. The location was traditionally a site of the Wishram tribe, who lived on the north bank of the Columbia River about 10 miles in both directions from The Dalles, Oregon. Although the Wishrams were included in the Treaty of Yakima, they resisted removal to the Yakama Reservation. Indian burials from Memaloose Island in the Columbia were removed to the Wish-ham Cemetery near Dallesport prior to the filling of Lake Celilo. The loss of their traditional fishing grounds at Celilo Falls during the construction of The Dalles Dam in March 1957 dealt both a spiritual and an economic blow to the tribe.
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