Local historian, Bill Layman, and author of the Wenatchi/P’squosa Colville Tribal elder, Randy Lewis, book Sunset and Moonrise on the Great Chief
is now available for purchase through Wenatchi Wear. This is the third book they have collaborated. Book released in 2021.
In the 1880s, 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 in "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 1894 painting Sunset and Moonrise of the Great Chief - Ruling Spirt of the Columbia has come back to life after an extensive restoration by the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center.
