American West(s): How the Yurok Tribe is reclaiming the Klamath River
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- The Klamath water crisis has shaped the Yurok Tribe for a generation. Many feel a fierce responsibility for a river that not only carries fish and water, but centuries of stories and struggle. Now, for the first time, one of the tribe’s own citizens is leading its long-running legal fight for increased water flows in the Klamath.
American West(s) explores the issues of the vast region between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains through the reporting of High Country News and the eye of documentary filmmaker Forrest Pound.
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Beautiful story, beautifully told.
Great documentary! Thanks for putting it together. I remember meeting you on the river down by Weitchpec when i eas working for the state many years ago. You left quite an impression. Im glad you are still working so hard to restore the Klamath. ❤
Amazing and interesting! You are doing an enormously important job 👏👏
Yes! Keep fighting the good fight you will win
Yes!! I'm very thankful that good positive steps are being taken to bring Upriver back the way it was.
❤️beautifully done
Thank you for introducing us to your great grandmother. A precious connection. Living in harmony with the environment is the way to go. Success with the important work you do. I am also following the dam removal on the upper Klamath. Cheers from the Netherlands.
I'm local to your River, and you have my support ❤
I stand WITH you!!! 😢
Wow, very beautiful & inspirirng!
Thank you for the information. This is very reasonable and fair. It's going to take so many people. Count me in!
❤️ Yurok
Amazing and heartbreaking. Best short on the distal Klamath.
This lady is awesome I need to visit this summer coming up
I remember watching this sis .
amazing video
Amen to those people.
I grew up in Klamath in the 60's when it was a real town so I am familiar with a lot of what you talk about. I knew and went to school with many Indian kids .I sat and listened to many stories from older Indians ladies as a cub scout. Once the Dams are completely gone it will help. It will also help if Indians quit using gill nets that stretch across the river so the fish cannot go up. Knowing we have a problem means the harvesting needs to change, both by Indians as well as sports fishermen.
I was just visiting Klamath, it STILL looks like a REAL town to me. Your comment is tone deaf!
2021 looks like it could be another horrible year for Klamath salmon. Thank you for working to "reclaim" a better future for them and all of the people who love them. The right kind of reclamation.
I’m Yurok and Karuk, (and a third one that I can’t name) and I knew absolutely nothing about our tribe. Thanks
Imagine, we are able to pump out the crater lake water for irrigation and then run it into the Klamath river to make it clean again
Stop the Public that pollute the lake. Sue the people that are pollution the lake. And after that everybody can fish the salmon.
Roberto Pizano
So this is not about saving livelihoods. Its about saving lifes.
You're semantics have no effect on my team. However, being a lexicographer of genetic, environmental and self esteem... I find it funny you think livelihood and lives are so separate... You can have a life or be living, but, until you're support net turns you're life through the livelihood of you're people / neighbors... Youll be lost , living, yet walking dead. Support is necessary..."everyone dies.... But not everybody lives" - Drake known historically as the savior of Canada
And also, you're comments so duplicit I don't know we're you're stance on the issue is
I apologize for making a duplicit comment. My stance is pro-river. Also not trying to have any effect on anybody, just stating a personal insight that might have been obvious to you. People may be able or unable to change their base of subsistence/ livelihood, due to a number of reasons. In the latter case, "life" and "livelihood" become the same. English is not my mother tongue. Hence, I am not interested in semantics and I guess my translator's definition of "livelihood" got me into trouble here.
@@ralfreinartz3562 yeah a lil bit... But to be honest I'm off the good good tonyt on cloud nine. So didn't matter what you said.... But I think the nature of you're comment being unclear about they're stance made a trigger go off. You know the synapses you're brain be blasting off when you got the CA Dr.hugs. as long as you stay able to be true to yourself and you're family... Apologies will be of order due to misunderstandings. The biggest threat to the earth today is the males inability to say sorry I was wrong . Especially them older clinging to the last of they're boomer run males. P.E.A.C.E Payce. Nah Bless. ONE 1ove
There has to be a kind of water intake for irrigation that can function without having a dam. With that the water temperature would stay cooler. Also modifying the farming upriver to be more water efficient and limit agricultural runoff should be not too difficult.
I hope that the dams are removed soon. I spent part of my childhood in that part of California and still remember the Yurok tribe fondly. May the spirits continue to watch over you.
Please tell me they won.
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Congratulations, the dam is down. !!! Good to see it !
..we had property on the Klamath..around Happy Camp..Hamburg...we were there when this fish die of happened..scary.. a lot of dead fish experts said it was caused by low oxygen in the water and some fish disease.....also, if you go all the way up to Irongate reservoir and see how big it is ..I wonder what will happen if/when they drain it..???..
Salmon is life
I'm calling for a class action lawsuit to be brought against these tribes
Boldt Decision. All native Americans should be well versed in.
You know it sucks Because I Live Right Here in Klamath & There's Nothing We Can Really do. It's Green House Gasses That Effect the Ecosystems what's causing Climate Change what's causing droughts that's the Main Problem. And The Dams Don't Help the salmon trying to Swim Upriver But if it wasn't for the dams then the rivers would be dry. It's just Bad All Around and It's really sad. I don't know what this world has come to.
Undamaged the Klamath river!
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more dam busters doug Gla55?
And all the fish killed again! Nice work. Collaborative effort by DC, Sacramento and the indians
My Cousin
The yurok klamath and karuk tribes should lose all their government reparations and payments and there should be a law a class action lawsuit against these tribes to pay back all the people who have lost their retirement all the people who have property lost property values on the Klamath River and all the fish and wildlife deaths because of these tribes
When the dams are removed & the wild river is allowed to run free, you will see Devastating floods that will destroy Reservation lands along with the small towns that thrive along the river! Before the dams the river would change course 10-20miles in some areas! It would change the border between Ca & Or till an Imaginary line was agreed to & drawn across northern Cal! The dams created electricity for northern Ca, tons of fresh water stored behind the dams (you know the fresh water shortage in Ca & near by states) that storage will be gone! If the Indians quit harvesting the salmon at the mouth of the Klamath with dynamite that would allow millions of fish to migrate up river restoring the runs! it is not all to do with the dams, Gillneting stretched across the river also has a devastating effect on the continued run up to River…Stop the dynamiting at the mouth & the gillnets, you’ll see the runs return! It’s just easier to blame the dams than address the real issue of miss Management by the Indians themselves!
Taking out the Irongate Dam creates far more problems for the region. The West and especially NorCal and SoOregon are getting drier by the year. Rainfall has decreased dramatically. Someday the state will be pumping desalinated water from the ocean over the mountains for residential use and farming.
Anna from the Smithsonian Museum will make this documentary completely unuseful and uncollaborative. Next time, review your end credits if you wanna be helped and believed. And know who is standing in front of you.
Poachers !!!!
fukashima is still pouring nuclear waste into the Pacific. This will make an impact on the salmon. Please look it up.
Boldt Decision. All native Americans should be well versed in.