Salmon Feeds Our People: Challenging Dams on the Klamath River

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Date

2010

Authors

Norgaard, Kari Marie
Reed, Ron

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Publisher

Conservation International

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.

Description

10 pages

Keywords

Indigenous peoples, Conservationists, Natural resources, Karuk Tribe, Salmon, Klamath River, Dams, PacifiCorp

Citation

Walker Painemilla, K., Rylands, A. B., Woofter, A. and Hughes, C. (eds.). 2010. Indigenous Peoples and Conservation: From Rights to Resource Management. Conservation International, Arlington, VA.

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