 The Tenino people participated in regular festivals related to the obtaining of the first foods of the new year.Each April a ceremonial party would be sent out to catch fish and gather wapato roots for a large festival celebrated collectively at the Dalles Tenino village by all tribal members except for the Dock-Spus band, which celebrated separately.This ritual of the First Fish was common to most of the Native American peoples of the Pacific Northwest coast and Columbia River plateau.