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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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:
She is a member of the Klamath Modoc tribe, [5] [4] a federally recognized tribe from Southern Oregon in the Klamath Basin. [6] Farrell-Smith is based in Modoc Point, Oregon. [ 7 ]
Sonny Mitchell, a member of a Karuk Tribe fisheries team, looks for juvenile Chinook and coho salmon in Wooley Creek, a tributary of the Salmon River, which is one of the major tributaries of the ...