A year after four major dams were removed from the Klamath River, a group of Indigenous youth began a 310-mile kayak trip to celebrate the restoration of a river considered the lifeblood of area tribes.
The Biden administration had brokered a 10-year truce in an extended legal battle with Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest over dams that had prevented fish from spawning.
Local tribes have argued in court that the federal government violated longstanding treaties by building dams on the lower Snake River, preventing salmon and other fish from spawning.
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