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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 ...
After that, the tribes' determination to heal their river and their people coalesced. Over the following 20 years, the "Undam the Klamath" campaign was formed to remove the dams and restore the ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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:
The Klamath Termination Act was a 1953 law under the US Indian termination policy.The Klamath tribe along with the Flathead, Menominee, Potawatomi, and Turtle Mountain Chippewa, as well as all tribes in the states of California, New York, Florida, and Texas were targeted for immediate termination by House Concurrent Resolution 108 of 1953.
California has released 500,000 salmon into the Klamath River. As dams are removed, the fish will be some of the first to return to a free-flowing river.