The Klamath County Oregon Circuit Court Judge Stephen Bushong issued an opinion once again affirming the Klamath Tribes’ water and treaty rights. The Court rejected arguments that a prior ruling had wiped away a prior determination quantifying those water rights. The Klamath, the Modoc and the Yahooskin-Paiute people have lived in the Klamath River Basin in Oregon from time beyond memory and our 1864 Treaty reserves our rights to hunt, fish, trap and gather, all of which require enough water to maintain a healthy and productive habitat for our treaty resources. We will continue to fight for the full protection these resources need,” said Klamath Tribes Tribal Chairman Clayton Dumont.
The Fourth of July is traditionally seen as a celebration of freedom, but the holiday took a new meaning on Tuesday in the Black Hills with American Indian activists holding a protest to bring to light what they say are injustices in the community. Marching from East Boulevard to the Rapid City Public Safety Building, activists and protesters gathered to demand reform in law enforcement agencies as well as address how schools are policed after what some said was a brutal year for the Native American community. “We would like to stop the killing of indigenous people by police. We would like to stop the overcriminalization of protests. We would like to see security resource officers out of the schools. We would like to see more support for native children in the schools, more solutions just beyond criminalizing them,” said Tom Swiftbird, a protester at the march.
Those are your headlines at this hour. I’m Colette Keith in the KIPI News center.
