FRAME # 5 
FROM 45-BN-157 A & B COMMON NAME YEAGER'S ISLAND
also called JAEGERS ISLAND FROM THE GERMAN HOMESTEADERS ABOUT 1900'S. The site is located about one mile west of Vernita Bridge on SR-24 from  Yakima, WA. to Othello, WA. Now part of the Hanford Reach it is patrol 24/7. We ask you to view the photos, and don't view the site in person, without a Guide from the Hanford Reach or a member of the Wamapum Group at Priest Rapids Dam or Wamapum Dam. Tours are not free.

FRAME # 6  
FROM 45-BN-157 A&B YEAGER'S ISLAND SITE NEAR
VERNITA BRIDGE

                   Benton, Co. Washington, State.  The archaeological site is off-limits to any digging of excavation. We ask you to view the photos and not try to fine the site as its is patrolled 24/7.  We ask all to refrain from destroying these Archaeological Sites.  The photos are for educational and research only and are not to be used for personal collecting or dig or destroy and Archaeological site within the Pacific Northwest.

       FRAME # 7  
FROM 45-BN-157 A&B; YEAGER'S ISLAND SITE NEAR VERNITA BRIDGE,
Located in Northern Benton, County Washington State.   This Archaeological Site is protected by Washington State and United States Law prohibiting looting of such Historical and Archaeological Sites.  We provide these photos for your personal enjoyment and education.
Please DO NOT LOOT THESE SITES.
 

 FRAME # 8  
FROM 45-BN-157 A&B YEAGER'S ISLAND SITE NEAR
VERNITA BRIDGE,
Located in Benton, County, Washington, State.  This site is   patrolled by Federal patrolmen 24/7. Please, do not try to go to these sites with out written permission of the authorities. The information and photos are for research and your enjoyment. Please do not force us to remove these photos by looting these sites.

FRAME # 9
FROM 45-FR-36A  PALUS or PLOUSE VILLAGE SITE: Located in Franklin County Washington State.  The site was near the mouth of the Palouse River on the West site of the Palouse River. This Archaeological Site is now beneath the waters of the Lower Monumental Dam on the Lower Snake River Valley.  

FRAME # 10 
FROM:  OLD UMATILLA TOWN SITE, (35-UM-35) 

 Located on the Banks of the Columbia River, Near the small town of  Umatilla, Oregon.  This site was dug very heavily from the early 50's until the early 70's when the Federal Government stopped all digging.  The early   collecting during the 50's and into the late mid 60's was legal as the land was privately owed.  These early diggers were not looting a archaeological site but digging in someone's private back yard.  We were young kids living near the site,  and on weekends would excavate this site as a small group. That was a early time in Northwest Archaeology.  The concept of looting in somebody's private yard was not even known. In those early days of the years after World War II when many returning GI and law abiding families and small groups walked and screened artifacts from the gravels of the Columbia and Snake River sites.  These people WERE NOT CRIMINALS, WERE NOT DRUG ADDICTS, NOR DESTROYING ANYTHING OF VALUE. They were normal parts of Society at that time in our Culture and Society.  I was a intrigue part of that landscape and I'm here to tell you that times have changed and what was legal then isn't today. Cultures and Societies behavior attitudes modify and change, and this is a prime example of that evolution of attitudes.  This will be continued below in some of the other photos.

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FROM: THE OLD UMATILLA TOWN SITE, (35-UM-35)

    This site was dug very heavily from the late 40's until the early 70's when the Federal Government stopped all digging on the Columbia River and Snake River.   The early collecting during the 40's to late mid 60's was legal as the land was privately owed and people would dig and screen in the back yards of these homes. Nearly all the digging was done in land that had been dig earlier for a sewer line, a water line, the family root cellars or in the construction of the home years early.  For many years the states and government said nothing about families digging and screening along the river banks.  That changed in the late 60's when much of the area from which these artifacts came was covered with water from the Columbia River and Snake  River Dams.  We ask all readers of this information above to research and study the issue of early 1900's collecting from which most of today's Museum displays have came from.  As stated above these fine Americans were not the same as today's criminals and drug dealers who loot these archaeological sites, to provide for their addiction. I and many retired senior citizens are sick  of those who have lowered themselves to call these fine Americans as "Looters,"  "Pot Hunters," and other despicable names.  All without warrant or moral value but to slander those who legal collected art and artifacts 40 years ago.  We remind those lofty people within the present Oregon Archaeological Society and others about their roots.  We here at Columbia River Ancient Resources believe these whiners and gossip centered individuals as vain and moving these Public Social Groups into a political front for Pro-Government, from the Political left to a forum of Public Control of all  Northwest Cultural Resources.  We also wish them to understand, any  violation of our legal right of free speech, free press and our legal right to  own art, artifacts on the Private level will and could result in legal action on those who are attacking us without legal reason.
 

FRAME # 12
FROM:  45-KL-5 OLD ALDERDALE TOWN SITE.

      Located in Klickitat County on the eastern side of Alder Creek.  This site is gone and is beneath the waters of John Day Dam and its Reservoir. All of these artifacts were found in the 50's and 60's from the beach area before the site was covered with water in April 1967.

FRAME # 13.
FROM: 45-KL-23B  Located in Klickitat one mile east of Sundale Orchards.  This archaeological Site is gone beneath the waters of the John Day Dam. April 1967.

FRAME # 14.
FROM: 45-KL-23B 

   Located in Klickitat County one mile east of Sundale Orchards.  This archaeological Site is gone beneath the waters of the John Day Dam. April 1967.  This was the very best collecting we ever found. When we first found the place it had never been worked by earlier collectors.  The site was very well washed out by the spring floods of the Columbia River. In one weekend my wife and I found over 200 perfect arrowheads. Many of which are pictured above and below.
 

FRAME # 15.
FROM: 45-KL-23B  Located in Klickitat, County one mile east of Sundale Orchards.  This archaeological Site is gone beneath the waters of the John Day Dam. April  1967.
 

       FRAME # 16.
FROM: 45-KL-26  Common name was "Wakemap Mound"  Located in Klickitat County This archaeological Site is gone beneath the waters of the Dalles Dam. April 1957.
 

            FRAME # 17  
Examples of a type of Columbia River Projectile Point (Arrowhead)
 

FRAME # 18
 Examples of Gunther-Rogue

FRAME # 19
35/HR/11Cascade Locks Cathackaty Village
 

                       FRAME # 20 45/KL/26
John Day Bar Site or Towl Bar Site, Klickitat, Co. WA
Near John Day Dam
 

FRAME # 21
FROM 45-KL-8A COMMON NAME WAS CECIL'S ROCK RANCH.
Located about five miles east of Roosevelt WA. On State Route 14 in Klickitat County, in Washington State.  This site was a favorite of many of the old collectors. When I first found the site most of it had been dug out in the 1920's to late 40's. The vast majority of the site had been severely washed out in the Great Spring Flood of 1894 and 1948.  During those Great Floods most of the natural Village Sites had been reduced to just simple river gravels. It was in this river gravels that the artifacts lay packed between the larger river boulders. Like so many other Mid-Columbia and Upper Columbia River Archaeological sites this site was well destroyed by Nature well before collecting artifacts became a issue.  Those who found these artifacts were not looters, or pot hunting, they were preserving and salvaging what had been washed out for centuries.  We here at Columbia River. Ancient Resources believe these early collectors were preserving the art and Artifacts for all of America to enjoy.

WE WISH TO THANK YOU FOR VIEWING THE INFORMATION ABOVE: 

We at the same time believe many fine and wonderful people have been slandered by a new wave of Pro-to-Modern fundamentalists and anti-collectors from the Political left who view all those who have or had Private Collections as "Looters of the Past" To them we say your sick. Sick with anger, sick with hate and worst of all sick with jealously. Smearing normal private people for hunting and collecting these forms of Pre-Historical art and artifacts 40 years or more ago is sad case of covet of your neighbor. This issue has destroyed the interest of a new generation of archaeologist who have been trained to harass and intimidate those wonderful citizens who for years gave of themselves freely to promote the field of archaeology. Yes, these same people who provided thousands and thousands of free hours of excavating under Federal Permits, in over one dozen Professional Excavations within the Pacific Northwest. Again, we point the finger at a new generation of haters and angry few that have destroyed the natural behavior to discover, and learn about the past. Your legalism, leftist political views, and covet have destroyed much more in serving the human sprite than you  gained in your legalism and gossip about others in the past and their behavior. Too you I say, with out any reservations that these acts of yours will in the long run become known as the "Dark Ages of Archaeology" in which your sole view was and is to control others thinking and control all of archaeology to conform with your personal and political views.