In the 1880's, artist James Everett Stuart visited Celilo Falls where he met "an old Indian" Who told him of an island five miles upriver that showed a great chief who had been turned to stone. The Elder called it "The Ruling Spirit of the Columbia" and related that Indians throughout the Columbia Basin once gathered there to worship the rock. Intrigued, Stuart proceeded to travel to the island to create his own interpretation of The Great Chief. Stuart's...