Abstract:
This is a story of how an impoverished northern California tribe challenged
a massive Goliath — a huge private utility corporation. It is
about one piece in the current struggle of the Karuk People in the
Klamath River Basin to retain cultural traditions and restore their river
ecosystem. Here we describe how a study was conducted that articulated
a formerly unseen connection between human and environmental
health, and which became an important piece in legal proceedings
underway that may result in the largest dam removal effort in history.