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Native American Teens Kayak Major River to Celebrate Removal of Dams and Return of Salmon
KLAMATH RIVER, CALIFORNIA, JUL 15 – Over 120 Indigenous youth from multiple tribes completed a 310-mile kayak journey celebrating the removal of four dams that blocked salmon runs for over 100 years, restoring tribal food sources.
- Youth from various tribes kayaked 310 miles to celebrate the removal of hydropower dams, which had blocked salmon from returning to their spawning grounds for decades.
- The four hydropower dams, built by PacifiCorp in the early 1900s, were removed from 2023 to 2024 due to advocacy by tribes and environmental groups, allowing salmon to return to their spawning grounds.
- John Acuna of the Hoopa Valley Tribe called the journey symbolic of a larger issue regarding their rights to the river.
- Yurok council member Phillip Williams highlighted the historical disregard for the tribes' treaty rights and the return of salmon post-dam removal.
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Kayakers celebrate culmination of month-long journey down undammed Klamath River
Several dozen Indigenous youth completed a 310-mile, month-long source-to-sea “first descent” of the undammed Klamath River on Friday. As the youths, between the ages 13 to 20, approached the sand spit adjacent to the Klamath’s mouth in their bright-colored kayaks, tribal elders, family members, friends and supporters waved and cheered them on. “I feel so proud to have completed this trip, and am feeling grateful for the support of my family and…
Indigenous youth complete 310-mile Klamath River journey
This story originally appeared on Underscore Native News.Over a hundred family and community members gathered on the sand spit shore below Requa Village on the Yurok Reservation, where the Klamath River meets the Pacific Ocean, to welcome 120 Indigenous youth kayakers over the last 30 days, making history as the first people to descend over 310 miles down the free-flowing Klamath River.“This is a historical moment for us,” said Susan Masten, for…
Native American teens kayak major U.S. river to celebrate removal of dams and return of salmon
The river is newly navigable after a decades-long fight to remove four dams to restore the salmon run — an ancient source of life, food and culture for local tribes for millennia.
Native American teens kayak Klamath River to celebrate removal of dams and return of salmon
By BRITTANY PETERSON, Associated Press KLAMATH — As bright-colored kayaks push through a thick wall of fog, voices and the beats of drums build as kayakers approach a crowd that has formed on the beach. Applause erupts as the boats land on the sandy spit that partially separates the Klamath River from the Pacific Ocean in northern California. Native American teenagers from tribes across the river basin push themselves up and out of the kayaks a…
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