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Native America Calling: Assessing a century of cultural destruction from dams
Monday, July 1, 2024
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Assessing a century of cultural destruction from dams
For the first time, the federal government acknowledges the devastation to Native American tribes caused by a century of dam building on rivers in the Pacific Northwest.

The report by the U.S. Department of Interior notes the benefits for the region’s burgeoning population in need of cheap power, irrigation, and steady jobs. But that same push dismissed the needs of the tribes that already occupied the land, resulting in flooding homes and sacred sites, and the decimation of salmon runs, their chief reliable food source.

Tribal Circumstances Analysis: Historic and Ongoing Impacts of Federal Dams on the Columbia River Basin Tribes

Guests on Native America Calling
Erik Holt (Nez Perce), chairman of the Nez Perce Tribe Fish and Wildlife Commission

Corinne Sams (Cayuse, Walla Walla, Cocopah), chair of the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission and member of the board of trustees and chair of the Fish and Wildlife Commission for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

Keola Awong (Kanaka Maoli), program manager interpretation and education

James Pepper Henry (Kaw and Muscogee), vice chairman of the Kaw Nation and director emeritus at the First Americans Museum

Hanford Reach National Monument
Hanford Reach National Monument in Washington is named for Hanford Reach, the last non-tidal, free-flowing section of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. Photo: A. LaValle / U.S Fish and Wildlife Service

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