Stories of the River, Stories of the People:
Memory on the Klamath River Basin
About the Exhibit:
The Klamath River Basin has served as the source of continued cultural and physical sustenance for the Hupa, Karuk and Yurok people of Northwestern California. With the building of eight dams on the Klamath River between 1903-1962 these forms of sustenance were severely threatened. Grassroots activism to remove the dams arose out of a devastating 2002 salmon die off and directly perpetuated the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement of 2010.This exhibit is an effort to combine oral history and exhibition techniques to convey the cultural meaning and memory of the Klamath River to the tribes of the Northwest region of California.
Would you like to bring the Stories of the River exhibit to your area? Contact us! We are also accepting donations to help us take the exhibit to new locations. Donations can be made here!
The Klamath River Basin has served as the source of continued cultural and physical sustenance for the Hupa, Karuk and Yurok people of Northwestern California. With the building of eight dams on the Klamath River between 1903-1962 these forms of sustenance were severely threatened. Grassroots activism to remove the dams arose out of a devastating 2002 salmon die off and directly perpetuated the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement of 2010.This exhibit is an effort to combine oral history and exhibition techniques to convey the cultural meaning and memory of the Klamath River to the tribes of the Northwest region of California.
Would you like to bring the Stories of the River exhibit to your area? Contact us! We are also accepting donations to help us take the exhibit to new locations. Donations can be made here!
Upcoming Events:
Friday February 19th, 2016 (4:30 - 6:00 p.m. at the Humboldt State University’s Goudi’ni Gallery, ARCATA): -- Curator Brittani Orona will speak at the closing reception for the exhibit. The Goudi’ni Gallery is on the first floor of the Humboldt State University Behavioral Sciences building (BSS).
The exhibit is currently open from January 28th-February 20th, 2016. The gallery is open Monday – Wednesday, noon-5 p.m.; Thursday noon-7 p.m.; Friday noon-5 p.m.; and Saturday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Admission is FREE. http://now.humboldt.edu/news/through-the-eyes-of-native-tribes-stories-of-the-klamath-river-basin/
Friday February 19th, 2016 (4:30 - 6:00 p.m. at the Humboldt State University’s Goudi’ni Gallery, ARCATA): -- Curator Brittani Orona will speak at the closing reception for the exhibit. The Goudi’ni Gallery is on the first floor of the Humboldt State University Behavioral Sciences building (BSS).
The exhibit is currently open from January 28th-February 20th, 2016. The gallery is open Monday – Wednesday, noon-5 p.m.; Thursday noon-7 p.m.; Friday noon-5 p.m.; and Saturday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Admission is FREE. http://now.humboldt.edu/news/through-the-eyes-of-native-tribes-stories-of-the-klamath-river-basin/
Latest NewsAugust 9, 2014 -- Editorial: Bureaucrats to Klamath fish: Drop dead (Times Standard)
August 8, 2014 -- ‘There are fish missing the scales on their bellies and rolling on the bottom of the river’ (Lost Coast Outpost) August 8, 2014 -- Klamath Basin facing catastrophic fish kill (Times Standard) August 5, 2014 -- Irrigation water cut off to some Klamath Project farms (Record Searchlight) July 30, 2014 -- Hoopa Valley Tribe: Interior Secretary turns back on Klamath salmon (Indy Bay.Org) July 30, 2014 -- Feds end preventative fish kill water releases to Trinity-Klamath rivers (Times Standard) |
About the Curator:
Brittani Orona is an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and completed her Master of Arts in Public History at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) in Fall 2014. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History from Humboldt State University in 2010. She has worked at the California State Indian Museum, the California State Office of Historic Preservation, National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC, California State Archives, and the Maidu Museum and Historic Site. She was an Executive Fellow '14-'15 through the Capital Fellows Program, at the California Government Operations Agency. Brittani currently works for the State of California as an Environmental Justice & Tribal Affairs Analyst. Brittani is interested in repatriation, federal Indian law, cultural resources management, environmental justice, and environmental history as they relate to California Indian tribes. |
