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Tamkaliks Celebration

An annual gathering of song, dance, and continuing community.

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The Wallowa Wild and Scenic River, photographed in May 2017 by the Bureau of Land Management. Community context for this record.
Around Wallowa

The Wallowa Wild and Scenic River, photographed in May 2017 by the Bureau of Land Management. Community context for this record.

Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington · 2017-05-25 · Public domain · Image & source ↗
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The wider landscape.

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Wallowa Lake and the mountains, seen from the county park at the north end.View photograph
Wallowa Lake

The lake, in spring

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives16 May 2012
A road, fence, and open prairie on the Zumwalt.View photograph
Zumwalt Prairie

A road across the prairie

Rick Swart, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife2015-11-15
Glacier Peak reflected in Glacier Lake, in the Eagle Cap Wilderness.View photograph
Eagle Cap Wilderness

Glacier Peak, reflected

Matthew Tharp / U.S. Forest Service2012-08-11
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Indigenous life

Tamkaliks Film

From Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland · 2025

The larger story

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The Wallowa Mountains reflected in the lake, photographed from the north-end county park. This landscape photograph does not depict a particular cultural gathering.
Chapter 02 Indigenous homelands

A homeland, in the present tense.

Treaties, fisheries work, family visits, and a plan that looks a century ahead: Indigenous life changes the county’s story when it is understood as continuing authority and homecoming, as well as history.

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The OK Theatre facade in Enterprise. The marquee records a moment in the past, not a current program.
Chapter 05 Culture & gathering

The places we find each other.

Fishtrap began with a question about whose West was being represented. A library, a Grange hall and a few drawers of saved papers tell related stories about making room for the county to describe itself.

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