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State legislators and advocates are trying once again to ban Native American mascots in Massachusetts high schools.
Along the Klamath River in Northern California, where logging companies once cut ancient redwood trees, vast tracts of land have been returned to the Yurok Tribe in a years-long effort that tribal ...
Yurok Tribe members Tiana Williams-Claussen, left, and Morgan Clayburn make their way to Blue Creek while traveling on the Klamath River, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, in Humboldt County, Calif ...
More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in northern California,have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.
At 10 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23, in an episode titled “River Restoration,” PBS’s “Changing Planet” will explore the Yurok Tribe’s contributions to post-Klamath dam removal ...
Suddenly, the 18-year-old was a full-fledged tribal council member, setting policy for the entire nation and getting a crash course in Klamath history. “I wanted answers,” he said.
For thousands of years, the Klamath Tribes have harvested a highly nutritious first food called wocus from the wetlands of Southern Oregon. As wetlands were drained for agriculture, the tribes ...
Tribes Celebrate Klamath Dam Removal: “More Successful Than We Ever Imagined” With four dams erased from the mighty river, work to restore the ecosystem is under way.
The mass salmon deaths helped spark decades of advocacy from Klamath tribes and conservation groups. In November 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the $500 million project.
In 2002, a lack of river flows along the Klamath River created water quality so poor that thousands of salmon died off in a massive fish kill. The event sparked the efforts of Klamath tribes and ...