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The Klamath Tribes opened the Kla-Mo-Ya Casino in Chiloquin, Oregon in 1997 on forty acres (16 ha) of land along the Williamson River. [35] It provides revenue which the tribe uses to support governance and investment for tribal benefit.
The Klamath were known to raid neighboring tribes, such as the Achomawi on the Pit River, and occasionally to take prisoners as slaves. They traded with the Wasco-Wishram at The Dalles . However, scholars such as Alfred L. Kroeber and Leslie Spier consider these slaving raids by the Klamath to begin only with the acquisition of the horse.
The Klamath River dams removal project was a significant win for tribal nations on the Oregon-California border who for decades have fought to restore the river back to its natural state.
Klamath Chairman William Ray said his tribe had fished the last salmon out of the river in the early 20th century after the first of the dams, Copco I, stopped fish from coming upstream to spawn.
The Klamath Tribes, made up of the Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin-Paiute people, reside in the Klamath Basin but hold many of their sacred ceremonies along the Sprague River. [85] The Upper Klamath Lake , and its fish populations, is also an important cultural and subsistence location for the Klamath Tribes.
Ancestral lands will be returned to the Shasta Indian Nation as part of a massive Klamath River dam removal project.
Ron Reed, a member of the mid-Klamath Karuk Tribe, recalled that the river was the source of fish and other foods for his family into the 1960s, when the final dam, Iron Gate, was completed. [5] In 1978, the Supreme Court of California upheld the ban on fishing for tribes. The Yurok had been fighting to regain their rights to fish since the 1930s.
The removal of four Klamath River dams along the California-Oregon border is in the spotlight — and for good reason. ... politicking and negotiations led by tribes and supported by a broad swath ...