The Klamath water crisis has shaped the Yurok Tribe for a generation. Many feel a fierce responsibility for a river that not only carries fish and water, but centuries of stories and struggle. Now, for the first time, one of the tribe’s own citizens is leading its long-running legal fight for increased water flows in the Klamath.

American West(s) explores the issues of the vast region between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains through the reporting of High Country News and the eye of documentary filmmaker Forrest Pound.

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