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"A new United States federal government report has found that the hydropower
dams on the Columbia River have flooded villages and disrupted ways of life,
while continuing to harm Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest.
The report,
Historic and Ongoing Impacts of Federal Dams on the Columbia River
Basin Tribes, was released by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI). It is
part of an agreement made by the Biden-Harris administration to acknowledge the
harms inflicted upon Pacific Northwest Native American Tribes and restore wild
salmon to the Columbia River Basin, a press release from the DOI said.
“Since time immemorial, Tribes along the Columbia River and its tributaries
have relied on Pacific salmon, steelhead and other native fish species for
sustenance and their cultural and spiritual ways of life. Acknowledging the
devastating impact of federal hydropower dams on Tribal communities is
essential to our efforts to heal and ensure that salmon are restored to their
ancestral waters,” said U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in the press
release.
The report details the historic, cumulative and ongoing impacts 11 dams
constructed on the Snake and Columbia Rivers have had on eight Columbia River
Basin Tribes, reported
The Seattle Times.
The federal report also gives recommendations for ways the U.S. government can
further its responsibilities to Tribes through the acknowledgment and
integration of these damaging impacts into future actions, the press release
said. It is the first time the federal government has provided a comprehensive
analysis of the ongoing harms caused by the dams to Pacific Northwest Tribes.
As part of the agreement made last year between the U.S. and the Tribes, the
federal government pledged $1 billion for the restoration of wild salmon and
the facilitation of green energy production, but did not provide for dam
removal,
The Seattle Times reported."
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