THERE'S A NEW POST AT KLAMBLOG!

[Felice Pace]

The new post is titled:

"The Boldt Decision - Salmon and tribal fishing rights."

This post explores the history which activists, reporters and others
can use today to understand what is going on and to inform their
Klamath River actions and reports. You know what they say about those
who don't understand history don't you?

Here's how the post begins:

"By now most of those who are involved with or reporting on
Klamath Salmon issues know at least the basic outline of the Klamath
River Salmon Wars of the 1970s. If you don't know that history, the
best retelling available was written by legendary Klamath Biologist
Ronnie Pierce and is available on-line for download. The war - real
guns were fired on all sides and armed federal marshals were deployed
- raised such a stir that it was reported at length in Sports
Illustrated."

"But you may not know that the Klamath Salmon War was part
of a larger struggle of Indigenous Northwest and California Native
peoples to preserve their rights to fish for salmon as they had done
for time immemorial. In the 1970s state fish and wildlife departments
- supported by the federal government - moved to terminate and wipe
out all vestiges of traditional Indigenous salmon fishing. At the time
no one thought that the rag-tag groups of Native fishermen would
prevail...including most of the fishermen themselves and their
families. They had forgotten or had never known the words of
anthropologist Margaret Mead:
'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever
has'."


My guess is that most of those involved in Klamath River and Klamath
Salmon issues these days do not know the history of the larger
struggle and the Boldt Decision that signaled victory for Native
fishers. So in this post KlamBlog offers an article on the larger
Salmon War and the Boldt Decision. The article is from the February 7,
1999 issue of the Seattle Times.

In this post I encourage readers and those who would help shape the
Klamath's future:

"Learn the history, it will help you find the right road today."

You can read the entire post at www.KklamBlog.blogspot.com