This 300-Mile River Was Destroyed By Dams, But This Tribe Is Fighting Back | Guardians of the River
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- The Yurok tribe live along the Klamath river and for decades they've been fighting to keep their livelihood. With extraordinary resilience and community effort, they've not only provided their own food source but won a long-deserved battle.
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The Klamath river. This nearly 300 mile river runs through Oregon and to the Northern California coast and, for the last century, dams have decimated this once abundant resource and blocked the route of salmon and steelhead.
But this isn’t a story about the fish. With this next documentary, we learn about the Yurok tribe. This thousand year old community relies on the river for survival, but over the years have learned to be resilient as they aim to restore clean water and food to their community.
If you want more about how this documentary was made, stick around to the end where we get a little Q&A with the filmmaker. And now from American Rivers and Swiftwater Films, this is Guardians of the River.
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I have immense respect and gratitude for the Yurok tribe and everyone involved in protecting and restoring these natural resources. Congratulations on the major victory and I wish you and your families the best going into the future
I love watching people keep their traditions alive❤️
I am so happy to see the hard work of the tribe finally yield some success. I love what the tribes are doing to establish food sovereignty with its members and community at large.
2 years later and now the dams are coming out! They won! And it’s beautiful to witness.
I grew up in Klamath Falls, Oregon. The natives have virtually no power against the ranchers, the power companies, and the federal government.
The communities along the river are in nearly perpetual states of drought, and I don't see it ever changing. I grew up duck hunting and fishing in and along the Klamath River, and it's hard seeing the situation degrade year after year.
No such thing as a native American
Agreed. Tribes have no power.
Ugh knowing the dams will be taken down fills my heart so much. This country, the entire thing, belongs to its native people.
@Danny Archer Original but I have nowhere to go. My home is occupied but ultimately if the native people want me out of their land I will humbly leave to wherever I am welcome.
That is so great, I hope that as we move towards solar and wind energy, more projects like this start to happen. Dams are said to be a renewable form of energy, but their environmental impact is enormous locally and most of the time, the ones that most suffer are indigenous people. We have this as a huge issue here in Brazil. So happy they will finally have their river back
I wish the Klamath River and The Yurok the best.
We are removing the dams. The river is now taking on its former glory. Such a blessing to see.
Rooting for the tribe! 🍀
That is great! So glad for them, for nature, for our dinner tables! We have the same problem in Florida with Lake Okeechobee sucks.
Congratulations on your victories.
So important to document the process and to educate others on organizing!
Keep up the great work!
Same thing is happening where I come from, I am part of the Isnag tribe of the Philippines and we are known as river people because of the abundance of rivers of our lands and we are now trying to prevent the construction of a dam that will be one of the largest dams in Asia, we’re trying to prevent our sacred rivers to be destroyed now
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hydro power is the cheapest and one of the cleanest sources of power ever invented and saves million's of lives through reduced poverty, reduced pollution and increasing the quality of life for millions of people.
seems extremely selfish of you to think your personal beliefs and lifestyle should outweigh the lives of tens of millions of people.
fight them tooth and nail.
@Malcolm X get educated. dams destroy environments, which destroys ecosystems, which destroys species which causes extinction.
your rant about selfishness disregards the other forms of life which are invariably destroyed, so that some folks can have some electricity which is produced easily in other ways.
pathetic. humans are not the most important life form. THAT is a selfish thought.
@@malcolmx61 thousands of people will have to find new residency many towns will be flooded, not to mention the environmental effects of dams especially that where we come from, it’s very green and full of nature, and there are also dams built in close provinces and the electricity made from those dams supply and are sold to other places and not those provinces where the dams are
And unlike some people out there, we care for our culture and we come from that’s why there was a vote for the people of the lands and the majority voted “No” for the dam but corrupt officials are pushing the idea in order to get more money
And it’s really just a case for the environment, a dam that big will create massive negative effects on untouched rainforests and the surrounding lands
Just take a look at this documentary
Biggest takeaway: You just can't give up.
These people are incredible. So inspirational. I hope the project happens the way it's supposed to. I will be following the docu series. Thanks for sharing this important message.
A tribe? They're still tribalistic? Wtf I thought we in the 21st century
@@kingofracism Having a bad day? Needed to relieve yourself by spewing some poison and get offended over nothing? Feel better now?
@@acmulhern how is that toxic lol. I was actually proving a point. Browns and blacks are given the opportunity to be tribal, and whites get in trouble for it. I actually want more tribalism and racism
@@kingofracism it all depends on your intentions. If your idea of a tribe is to keep traditions alive, especially revolving around food, music, celebrations, then it's a very beautiful thing.
But if your idea is of spreading hate and aggression towards outsiders then no.
@@acmulhern hatred and aggression are perfectly natural human emotions. You sound like a weak female. I'm so sorry this is happening to you, but those things will always exist whilst humans are alive, and that's because we are quite literally a tribal species. Your utopian view of the world is funny but wrong
These little documentaries are great, keep it up!
Salute to the Yurok tribe. Thanks seeker.
Always stay strong and resilient!
If one says no, keep asking the next and the next until you find what/ who works with you!
Don’t be afraid to ask for help with your fight. Remember that change is the only constant thing in the world.
So glad to see the gardens flourishing!
Don’t be afraid to try new foods/ cooking methods and at the same time, honor the choices/preferences of your families.
Being engaged from the planning stages on, and having a choice in what gets planted, and creating gardens close to where people live is critical for people to be more self sufficient in their food sources.
This is so refreshing to see I hope one day go to this river
Just watched videos of Elwha River dams removal & recovery of the river afterwards. Amazing recovery. Hope you have a successful recovery of your river.
So glad they're removing the dams,hope it doesn't happen something similar in one of the most beautiful rivers in europe such as vjosa in albania.Great documentary.
I am with the tribe but also the fish: If something isn't done about the dams the fish run itself will disappear, no more fish for anyone.
They are still going up Blue Creek, Trinity, Salmon, Scott, Shasta rivers.
Love to see Oregon content
thank you, thank you all so much ❤
This made me cry I wish I could help .
I think it's sad that so many cultures forget to care for our Earth. The many indigenous peoples who have to fight for their land and their ways of life that have been tradition for generations are doing a service for all of us, including the people they're fighting against. No matter where you're from or what you believe, we all need to care for our Earth and for one another. ✌🏽❤🌎
They don't forget, they're forced not to by the few claiming ownership and control over their lands. It's those who sell us out to the colonizers that are the worst and biggest part of the problem.
Awesome work my friends!! So happy you have been finally successful!
Great vid, thanks for making
Bless the First Nations! Protecting the water for time immemorial. I stand with them.
It's Great the dams are being removed
My prayers to the ancestors for the tribe
Was just on the mighty Klamath for a week. The slime is everywhere. Watch out because of the drought. They will try to use it to delay or even halt the dam removal. Stay vigilant.
It was bad like you said two years ago. This year, 2023, no green slime. But from the Scott river down, it's pure muddy. Run off from the burn areas.
I was just up their looking around. It's a shame.
This winter is going to be really bad.
I am so glad that the dams will be removed
Im Born and raised in Oregon Willamette valley Benton County region. I want to see the day that we get rid of damns now that we have better forms of energy sources, and we see how much it's negatively impacting the environment and food sources.... Things have got to change.... These damns are not worth it.... We have the technology to get electricity in so many different forms but we need the river to provide the food for us... The ecosystems for us... That we cannot change....
This is a global problem. Hydropower dams are very disruptive to entire ecosystems. When a river is dammed the natural cycle of water is altered. This in turn, alters the local weather and rainfall. Land downstream from dams dries out and must be irrigated to produce crops.
I'm glad that the Yurok have prevailed on behalf of the Chinook, but I will only rejoice with them once the dams are actually gone.
In the interim, their scientists should consult with those from our tribes of the KBIC here in the midwest. We grow and harvest wild rice in the Great Lakes watershed. We also help to manage the water quality and wildlife in the Great Lakes area.
These people are real guardians
The first week of June my wife and I are taking a tour down the Klamath with the Yurok in their traditional canoes. If you want to help support their fights, support their businesses and tour groups!
Maybe below Blue Creek.
Great documentary, glad they are being removed, utter madness to put them there in the first place!
Solidarity!
Sometimes we forgot the causes of building a dam on river.
Effects*
No, they were known before they were built but that means nothing in the face of capitalism
@SAMUEL NAUMETS make me!!
@Historyiscool8899 Call it whatever you want but it's the truth. The Aral sea was dried up in the same way and it was also entirely for short term profit. Just because other countries pretend to be against the West and the ways of the western world that doesn't mean they're not a bunch of hypocrites that do the same in order to profit from the same source.
This is my home state!
THANKS a lot
Congratulations!
Nice video.
Imagine what we could do if we truly believed that we are all brothers and sisters!
Use all the guts and leftover parts to fertilize your gardens !
Big brain strategy
I'm actually wondering is there any way to build dams where they wouldn't be creating those problems? are newer dams build better? Anyone smart there that could explain it to me? (I googled didn't really find anything that would answer my questions?
Yeah the Oregon Dams were built super cheap and have substandard bypasses for wildlife. Ripping down the whole dam is not the way though. How do these people think they get their power? They should be protesting for improvement to the dam not its destruction. A dam helps to lift thousands out of poverty. For example a lot of the dams in Washington State just north of Oregon do not have these issues. Also one of the guys in the video is essentially implying that if they don’t get what they want they will be violent, which is going to make even less people take them seriously. 12:51
check out the "micro hydropower" video on the yt channel "just have a think"
Brilliant mini documentary great work
From my understanding from men like Elmer Keith who were involved with the project saw the need for fish ladders at all dams and did the work themselves only to see no support for maintaining them or building new ones as needed
Woww!!!
I live on the Colorado river and for me what i really want to know is how come they dont release more water from these lakes to rise the water flow? On the Colorado i live next to davis dam and the water level fluctuates depending on the time of day because they can change how much water comes out. Our river is pretty dangerously fast too most of the time so how come these dams cant be controlled like that?
Tbh if these dams do end up having the controls i wonder if that would help these people in a way! Hope someone sees this!
Is it because they have to have the water flowing at a certain speed through the turbines to produce electricity?
Not that simple. The water released is warm water.
At Shasta dam, water is released for fish near the bottom. It's cold and the river is temperature regulated for the winter run Chinook.
Winter run. I don't know any other river that has them.
I have caught them fishing for steelhead in December. Beautiful fish.
Not that simple. The water released is warm water.
At Shasta dam, water is released for fish near the bottom. It's cold and the river is temperature regulated for the winter run Chinook.
Winter run. I don't know any other river that has them.
I have caught them fishing for steelhead in December. Beautiful fish.
Wado Mvto Gratitude to y'all getting dams gone
True heros
If the fish runs are that small, then every individual taken out pushes them closer to extinction. So they have to ask themselves. Is it more important to eat some now and have them completely gone soon, or stop fishing for a generation and ensure future generations can continue the tradition.
all of these dam problems could be solved if people werent so irrationally scared of nuclear power
2021: The Yurok tribe discovers agriculture.
I don’t see solar panels,wind turbines,nuclear power plants?So the dams must be producing electricity for their.ah Gas!
it is disgusting and criminal how we treat native people's and our planet
the sad music jarred me listening.
klamath is under undaming process. wish other important rivers like snake river get undammed.
APTTMH!!!
I seriously doubt the Yurok will achieve anything against the government and corporations except more misery and punishment, but I trulywish them the best, they deserve recompense.
They don't look like they're starving. That's for sure.
And they are definitely not eating solely from their garden.
They just replaced their fish with McDonald... and now they realize the mistake!
new cause, destroy the dams!!!!
I love Native Americans they are the backbone of America and I am saddened by what the forefathers have done to the culture the land and the rivers
The Klamath will be free once more.
10/ 2023
These guys look pretty healthy! Lol 😆
Actions definitionally speak louder than words. I need to take action myself.
Yep the seem to be getting the daily average american nutritional requirements.
That is not healthy.
@@Catlily5 lol 😆
@@kase3176 They need their traditional diet again.
seems like that onep erson gets fed alot
He eats everyone's fish
8:11 fought for fishing rights against the government after the government took their land and kinda gave it back to them the government is horrible for doin thia like come on yall
4:58 After seeing this I am blessed that we have GANGA ji in India. I am sad that Ganga ji is way way more polluted than this river BUT still Ganga ji has more fish and dolphins. Ganga ji helps in irrigation of millions of acres of crop, tons of people's livelihood is from Ganga ji. It is the greedy industrialists who polluted the Ganga ji on large scale otherwise almost every in India respects, honours and prays to soil, rivers, trees, sun... I love my India and soon all the rivers in India will be clean, air will be clean as electric vehicles will be majority on road and industries use technology to reduce their air, land and water pollution, I hope with increasing pace of hard work by 2032 we will be therea
How is their casino doing ?
BREAK THE DAMS RELEASE THE RIVER
2024 4/6 dams being removed lets hope
All that talk about taking care of themselves and family but most of them are overweight? I don’t understand?
Drive around the reservation and tell us how clean their yards are ?
Great video as always but I have to ask: why most part of them are obese? Fish is surely not the cause of it.
Yeah, there doesn't exactly seem to be any food shortage in the tribe...
If they had more fish they'd probably be thinner.
There are better ways to generate hydro than dams.
But dams are the most powerfull. Dam hydropower is by far the largest contributer to cleanpower. Wind and solar have nothing water
@@rubikfan1 What you call clean power is destroying entire ecosystems. Dams are great to generate much power, but are destructive to their environments, both upstream and downstream.
Watch the new documentary, Seaspiacy and see the real reason there is no fish.
ruclips.net/video/iXO7idy25fU/видео.html
Removed and replaced by coal or gaz plant which emit CO2 into the atmosphere?
Wind farms and Solar panel don't works on demand...
nuclear
These specific dams don’t produce that much power, and they were built very cheaply. There are better ways of generating power sustainably.
Yes they do.
Thank you for this video
But what can we do and how can we protect our nation from such things (India) ?
Solar energy.
Explosives
Vote out Modi
Vote out fascist government first.
@@casmatt99 And whom should we vote according to you?
Fallout 2? Arroyo?
Long story short: they will remove the damn 2023.
So basically we want renewable energy, but not hydro-electric energy
There are a lot of ways to generate hydro-power without destroying an ecosystem.
Meh I still want hydro.
And windmills pollute the skyline, and solar uses up so much area of nature. Also no fossil fuels.. Basically we want to go back to the pre industrial age. OR we can use the least damaging options like hydro and try to find solutions for their problems.
@@ManderSeis so windmills are just bad to look at, and solar that can like.. be put on all sides of building takes up too much space?
Some dams that produce hydropower are okay. These are some of the worst in the country. Not all dams are the same. This is a win-win project and will benefit everyone.
great
Looking at the size of a lot of them, they are certainly getting way more than their share of food from somewhere. They are obviously not starving.
Based on how they look they’re eating processed food, which is why most poor people are obese.
Gas station food makes you fat and unhealthy.
Without the salmon our way of life would be impossible? Well they are eating something and a lot of it
If you are calling them fat you are ignorant. I live in the same county that Klamath is in, and I know that klamath is what you call a food desert. (Google it) When that lady talks about how she grew up eating from a 7/11 every day she wasn’t lying. There’s no store that sells fresh or healthy food in Klamath, the nearest city with real grocery stores is a half hour drive under normal circumstances, but it’s through a mountain road that is literally falling into the ocean and currently has expected delays between 30-60 minutes. You can’t expect people to drive an hour and 30 minutes to get healthy food and produce while still taking the time to be with their family and work at their job. So there’s not a lack of food in Klamath, but there’s a lack of healthy food. You can’t stay skinny and healthy while eating food from a gas station every single day. Without the salmon healthy living in Klamath is so much harder.
@@a_hamburger2957 exactly I’m seeing these comments saying they have enough food because of their size, which isn’t true- they’re only getting processed foods
@@a_hamburger2957 You are talking about HEALTH. allowing yourself to become morbidly obese because you were too lazy to drive an hour and a half to load up with fresh healthy food once a week is nonsense
Show India!!
as a pescatarian, i root for their ancestrally due access to pristine wilderness. im glad they've adapted and overcome for the time being, especially via supplanting the diet with vegetables. they need more fruit, though. And lastly, it's a shame they are packaging their produce in plastic bags that will eventually pollute the environment which is counteractive to their ancestral way of life. They could easily be reusing containers or at least biodegradable materials. they lack education, so their critical thinking skills are under-developed.
there are a lot of conflicting messages in this video.
shows that their way of life is doomed despite their hope.
You can't walk 30 seconds around there without having to avoid blackberry brambles, and the climate zone around the Hoopa valley allows for apples, pears and several other fruit trees to grow without irrigation. It's harder to keep fruiting plants *away* than it is to find fruit to eat up there.
We are the locusts of Abbadon.
he seems to be fairly well fed already.
looks like they're getting plenty to eat
অসাধারণ ❗👍💗👏👌✌
Mother earth knows very well how to run her own business but we humans never want her business to go the way she had planned it. And that is why we see all these happening to her.
Wait. Hold up a sec. "Without these salmon or way of life is impossible."
Yes wat are u confused about?,
@@SuperSlimshady1 there are plenty of other ways to live.
Something about this seems off and inauthentic. I would like to hear these people's stories told by a different director. I have no doubt they have a story to tell, and it's almost certainly a sad story. And I don't think the documentary maker told it.
You are correct.
Super cute sister
Hello
Yoo 🙌
Fighting back because we don't want water.
??
You mean they don't want toxic water?
Gotta say... for a documentary this was terribly one-sided 👀
Y’all look over fed😂
I'll say prayers for all of you. This is a tragedy and inspiring at the same time.
Edit: I commented too soon... so glad to see they're being removed. And I can't wait to see it's revival in a future vid.
you said it your self admitting your grandfather was over fishing the spot before you were borne. 50 fish a day. can you admit that was also hurting the population of the fish?
50 fish a day is statistically invisible smart guy, the issue is habitat destruction
This river is huge. That many fish a day so nothing compared to how many used to be thriving in its water bed.
@@a_hamburger2957 50 times one person.... times 50 years of it. so if village was 30 that 1500 a day... for 50 years....
point is it did effect it i said 50 a day times 30 people x the years... one year it's 547500 fish. admit you had a hand in it is all. how many years did it go on for?
@@marcmathes41 You're just doubling down on your ignorance with trashy logic. Those numbers are all statistical rounding errors compared to the actual number of fish out there. You're an embarrassment.
We need to find balance between thr health of the rivers and need to electricity from hydroelectric
If ur hydro-electric plant is affecting the natural order of life, it’s not worth it at all!!!
@@1wasinAlpha dams are built several reasons including flood protection. Nobody seems to remember how bad the spring thaws and the following flooding was.
@@1038994 in california? what?
@@ConspiracytardHunter420 this is far Northern California, it’s part of the Pacific Northwest so it’s climate is much much more similar to that of oregon and Washington than the rest of California. And the original commenter was correct, somewhere around 1955 I believe the Klamath River experienced a gargantuan flood and wiped out almost all of the city of Klamath shown in this video) it’s now been rebuilt on higher ground).
Im the 1st viewr so don't mess with me, Alright ?