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In 1984, the tribe was forced to stop fishing altogether when their other two major fish species, the c'waam and koptu, plummeted in numbers, victim to toxic waters in Upper Klamath Lake and the ...
Klamath Tribes member Jeff Mitchell, who's served his tribe in various capacities for over 50 years, said his people had been raising awareness of the issue for nearly two decades before that.
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.
To improve fishing for salmon and the quality of the salmon runs, the Klamath Tribes are pressing for dams to be demolished on the upper rivers, as they have reduced the salmon runs. By signing the Treaty with the Klamath of 1864, 16 Stat. 707, [30] the Klamath tribe ceded 20 million acres (81,000 km 2) of land but retained 2 million acres ...
Workers are breaching the final dams on a key section of the Klamath River on Wednesday, clearing the way for salmon to swim freely through a major watershed near the California-Oregon border for ...
Elderly Klamath woman by Edward S. Curtis, 1924 A Klamath man Klamath people in dugout canoes, 19th century. The Klamath people are a Native American tribe of the Plateau culture area in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Today Klamath people are enrolled in the federally recognized tribes:
Case history; Prior: Klamath Indian Tribe v. Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, 729 F.2d 609 (9th Cir. 1984); cert. granted, 469 U.S. 879 (1984).: Holding; The exclusive right to hunt, fish, gather roots, berries, and seeds on the lands reserved to the Klamath Tribe by the 1864 Treaty was not intended to survive as a special right to be free of state regulation in the ceded lands that were ...
Thompson was 7 when she saw the dead fish floating in the river, and that memory has stayed with her. She saw it as evidence that dam removal was essential for restoring the river's health.