Wanapum Heritage Center

The Wanapum tribe, which used to live along the Columbia River, is now Washington State. The name "Wanapum" comes from Sahaptin wánapam, which means "people by the river." The Wanapum area now has a dam and reservoir, named Wanapum Lake. The dam was built in 1959 and the hydropower station began operating in 1963.

The Wanapum dam is located on the Columbia River in the northwest of the United States and has a reservoir called Lake Wanapum. The Wanapum dam was built in 1959 and the hydroelectric station was operational in 1963, generating more than 4 million megawatt-hours of electricity annually. The Native American Wanapum tribe, which used to live along the Columbia River and is now Washington State, is a name from Indiana that means "riverside people". Poor thing is, there are only sixty people left in this riverside tribe, and they have no electricity.