The voices of the native people speaking in these films are contagious with hope for a better future.
They are witnessing their ancestral conflict with colonization, dispossession, and assimilation by the dominant culture.
To the detriment of their lives, culture, and language, and with grave consequences to the health of the Earth.
The descendants of the original Yuroks, Hupa, and Karuk are now hopeful for a better future in the Klamath Basin after over a hundred years of struggle for justice.
They are engaged in advancing human and environmental rights for their communities.
Embraced by their convictions to restore the world, this generation of leaders exhibit the emotion and the passion that is needed to achieve cultural change.
Their ancestor's refusal to comply, and with their efforts to recover their fishing rights, culminated the past two years with the removal of the Copco Dams.
The people are prepared to improve the aquatic conditions for the salmon to return to a healthy river.
For the benefit of all the inhabitants of the Klamath Basin.
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