Good morning Mr.
Webster,
The following
statement was received with a
standing ovation at the last
Klamath Falls County
Commissioners meeting.
Surprisingly, Mr. Ty Beaver, a
reporter for a Klamath Falls, OR
news paper, misquoted the Shasta
Nation, has not fairly reported
Shasta Nation views and has
insulted our People by calling
us an improper name. I believe
this was done on purpose to
discredit, confuse and minimize
the Shasta Nation's importance
to the dam removal ordeal. I
will send this same letter to
Mr. Beaver, but I do not expect
a correction.
Thank you Mr.
Webster for your extremely
honest and courageous reporting
on the Klamath River water and
Tribal issues.
With great
respect,
Gary Lake
Vice Chairman
Shasta Nation
STATEMENT
TO KLAMATH COUNTY COMMISSIONERS:
Good evening
Klamath County Commissioners and
Citizens,
Thank you for
letting the Shasta Nation speak
our mind regarding the dam
removal.
There will never
be a situation where you will be
left alone as long as frivolous
lawsuits continue to be
lucrative.
This is not a
situation between Tribes and
water users, it is a situation
between right & wrong, good &
bad and complacency vs.
responsible action.
Those who are
buying into this agreement are
doing so out of fear and lack of
knowledge.
Pre-dam
conditions were not conducive to
reliable fish and water user
assurances.
There are people
who would like to turn water,
into gold like 150 years ago,
and tear the fabric of the
Shasta Nation and
Klamath/Siskiyou County people
apart.
This proposal
NEVER mentions the Shasta Nation
People, of which this chaos is
happening in our ancestral
lands. Historically the Shasta
People provided salmon to the
Klamath Tribes.
This proposal
divvies up the Shasta Nation's
customs, culture and
socioeconomic well-being and
allows interloping Tribes to
steal that of which has been
Shasta for thousands of years.
This document is
designed to create confusion and
desperation.
In recent press
releases from the Klamath, Hoopa
and Karuk Tribes, never is the
Shasta Nation mentioned.
Craig Tucker, spokesman for the
Karuk, even went as far as to
threaten and blackmail Siskiyou
and Klamath County residents
with 10 more years of lawsuits
if they are not successful!
Dam removal will
be catastrophic to modern day
fish habitat and water user
resources.
The Shasta
Nation's position regarding dam
removal is, "Do NOT negotiate,
Just Say NO!" Thank you.
