coulee

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The proposal comes as upper Columbia Basin tribes begin to reintroduce salmon in their homewaters nearly a century after construction of Grand Coulee cut off their journey.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

His mother was a schoolteacher, and his father, Harold Douglass, helped build Grand Coulee Dam.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2023

From Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River to Hoover Dam on the Colorado, reservoirs have fueled toxic algae blooms, increased evaporation and flooded land that was home to Native Americans for millennia.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2023

“After work in the fields, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, go to Soap Lake, Coulee Dam, swim, explore.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2023

Arriving at Medicine Tail Coulee, they saw the soldiers running away.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III