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A powerful documentary shows what happened when Native teenagers kayaked a healing river in Oregon
A powerful documentary shows what happened when Native teenagers kayaked a healing river in Oregon
A powerful documentary shows what happened when Native teenagers kayaked a healing river in Oregon

Published on: 05/15/2026

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Tasia Linwood kayaks the Klamath River upstream of the former Iron Gate dam site, June 22, 2025, as a participant in Paddle Tribal Waters.Kayakers within the Paddle Tribal Waters program paddle the Wood River towards Agency Lake on June 13th, 2025 in Southern Oregon.Ruby Williams of the Quartz Valley and Karuk tribes (left), uses a zinc sunscreen stick on ‘ A:de’ts-Nikya:w Rogers (right) of the Hoopa Valley Tribe alongside an old dam construction site on the banks of the Klamath River, June 22, 2025.OPB filmmaker Jessie Sears produced “First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath” – a film about a group of Indigenous youth who became the first people since the largest dam removal project in history to kayak the Klamath River from source to sea.From left, Paddle Tribal Waters instructor Jaren Roberson, who is Hopi and Navajo, unloads boats on the banks of the Klamath River with participant Tasia Linwood, who has Karuk, Okanagan, Ojibwe, and Wampanoag ancestry, June 22, 2025.At far left, ‘A:de’ts-Nikya:w Rogers of the Hoopa Valley Tribe pauses at the beginning of a rapid on the Klamath River while other paddlers wait behind him, June 22, 2025. Rogers and the other kayakers are participants in Paddle Tribal Waters, a program that trained Indigenous youth for several years to be the first group of people to paddle the Klamath from source to sea.On June 12, 2025, a group of Indigenous youth start their journey from the headwaters of the Klamath River to the mouth following historic dam removal.Young Indigenous kayakers with the program Paddle Tribal Waters make their way through Wood River on June 12, 2025 near Chiloquin, Oregon.To’nehwan Jayden Dauz from the Hoopa Valley Tribe, 15, braces himself in a rapid on the Klamath River near where the Copco 1 and 2 dams once stood, June 22, 2025. Dauz is a participant in Paddle Tribal Waters, a program that trained Indigenous youth for several years to be the first group of people to paddle the free-flowing Klamath from source to sea.Hoopa Valley Tribal member Julian Rogers, 16, paddles through a rapid in Kikacéki Canyon on the Klamath River, June 22, 2025. Rogers is a participant in Paddle Tribal Waters, a program that trained Indigenous youth for several years to be the first group of people to paddle the free-flowing Klamath from source to sea.

A powerful documentary by Jessie Sears captures the inspiring journey of Native American teenagers who paddled the newly undammed Klamath River last summer.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/native-american-news/2026/05/a-powerful-documentary-shows-what-happened-when-native-teenagers-kayaked-a-healing-river-in-oregon.html

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