📽🌊🎬 Last summer, American Whitewater supported the ongoing training of the Rios to Rivers Paddle Tribal Waters team in their mission to be the first to paddle the undammed Klamath River through their Tribal homelands.
“Ohhhh, I’m so stoked that I get to be the first to kayak down our home rivers…”
After three days of whitewater kayak instruction on the Trinity River, the Klamath’s largest tributary, we all visited the Klamath dams to learn more about them and see the preparations for their removal. Since then, the Paddle Tribal Waters crew has spent lots of time building their skills on the river and the dams have started to come down. We look forward to the day that Paddle Tribal Waters begins its descent of an undammed Klamath.
“All our families’ have been waiting for this moment, but we get to live it.”
-Isqots Xoyan, Paddle Tribal Waters participant (Hupa)
22 май 2024