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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.
Ancestral lands will be returned to the Shasta Indian Nation as part of a massive Klamath River dam removal project. California will help return tribal lands as part of the historic Klamath River ...
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 ...
Tribal members hug as crews took down what was left of Iron Gate Dam on the Klamath River. A coalition of tribes, local and state authorities joined to make the years-long project a reality.
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:
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.
The Quartz Valley Indian Community of the Quartz Valley Reservation of California is a federally recognized tribe of Klamath, Karuk, and Shasta Indians in Siskiyou County, California. [ 1 ] Reservation