Our Sacred Obligation

Our Sacred Obligation recounts the history of the Yurok Tribe’s struggle against the colonization of the Klamath River, which has sustained them since time immemorial. A land reclamation project and a series of dams have brought the Klamath River salmon populations to the brink of extinction. But the Yurok are fighting back. Propped up by their ancestors, and the recent success of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe on the Elwha River, the Yurok are using their sovereignty to fulfill their sacred obligation to bring the dams down and restore the river.

[@gottharp]

Thank you so much for taking the time to share the wisdom of your culture. May we listen well and appreciate the many gifts we have been given.

[@ciannenewborn9307]

Thank you from Australia.🙏🧝‍♀️🌏💚
The wisdom of our first nations was ignored here as well 😪 the rivers are poisoned.

[@scottsam6960]

Salmon is life

[@jtflowers9698]

what an amazing film. Thank you so much for all of your wisdom and generations of work on this. We we win! the dams will fall❣

[@the_great_plague]

Beautiful video. Let all the dams fall... I wish there was more I could do to help

[@jamesfox2857]