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27 NARF Legal Rev. 1 (2002)

handle is hein.journals/narf27 and id is 1 raw text is: ' THE LONG STRUGGLE HOME: THE KLAMATH TRIBES' FIGHT TO RESTORE THEIR LAND, PEOPLE AND ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY On March 19, 2002 the Secretary of the Interior invited the Klamath Tribes to meet with Interior officials to work on long term solutions to an entire range of water, land and wildlife issues facing the people of the Klamath Basin in Oregon and California. This historic invitation will include discussions of the potential return of public lands taken from the Tribes in the A 1960's when the federal govern- ment took the Tribes ancestral reservation lands. The Tribes' lands were taken as part of the 7 now repudiated Termination Era when the policy of the United States Congress was to end the government-to-government relation- ship with Indian tribes and force the assimilation of Indian people into the main- stream of the majority The Long Str culture. Although the Klamath Trib Tribes retained significant Restore Their property rights on their Economic Sel former lands to hunt, fish and gather and water rights to sustain those CASE UPDAT activities, the water and -Alaska Cou wildlife resources have English-On been continuously degraded ................... to a state where they can no longer be harvested to New Board M provide subsistence for tribal members. ' Indian Law L ug es' La lf-S ES rtS ly em ibr Indeed, the entire ecosystem of the Klamath Basin has been so degraded that it can no longer sustain either the quantity or quality of water demanded. In 2001 it was necessary for the first time in nearly 100 years for the federal Bureau of Reclamation to curtail delivery of Hagriculture irrigation water to a 1% ofederally subsidized reclamation IL < )P project in order to avoid jeopar- dizing treaty protected fisheries listed on the federal endangered species list. That fishery is a S central component of tribal sub- sistence, and it has been cut off -4/ since 1986 when the Tribes c determined that the fishery was in jeopardy. While Congress reacted quickly to provide 20 million dollars of economic relief to the farmers in 2001, along with gle Home: The a long list of other supports Fight to and benefits, not one dime nd, People and of relief has been provided ufficiency to the Tribes for the loss of ................ page 1 their fishery. The farmers in the irrigation project reacted angrily to having ;trikes Down their water deliveries Law curtailed for the first time ........ page 12-13 in the project's history. The Tribes have warned for ber ...... page 14 years that the federal and state governments had ary ........ page 14 seriously over committed WINTER/SPRING 2002 VOLUME 27, NO. 1

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