The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 32 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. ^^^^k^^ use, and provided itwith a worthy high-way to the ocean. Over this beau-tiful region we maydescry yet anotherdawn, the beginningsof the Northwesternworld according toIndian legend. TheColumbia River In-dian, like his brothersin other parts of thecountry, was curiousabout the origin ofthe things he beheldaround him, andoppressed by thingshe could not mysteries bothof creation andof human destinyweighed heavily up-on his blindness; andhis mind, pathet-ically groping in t
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 32 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. ^^^^k^^ use, and provided itwith a worthy high-way to the ocean. Over this beau-tiful region we maydescry yet anotherdawn, the beginningsof the Northwesternworld according toIndian legend. TheColumbia River In-dian, like his brothersin other parts of thecountry, was curiousabout the origin ofthe things he beheldaround him, andoppressed by thingshe could not mysteries bothof creation andof human destinyweighed heavily up-on his blindness; andhis mind, pathet-ically groping in thedark, was ever seek-ing to penetrate thedistant past and thedim future. So far Oneonta Gorge, south side of the Columbia, thirty-threemiles east of Portland. as he had any relig-ion, it was connectedwith the symbols of power in nature, the forces which he saw at workabout him. These forces were often terrible and ruinous, so his godswere as often his enemies as his benefactors. Feeling his powerlessnessagainst their cunning, he borrowed a cue from the animal people, Wate-tash, who used craft to circumve
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