With the dams on the Klamath River coming down, this year’s Salmon Festival was an extra special event. Join Redwood Voice’s Ethan Caudill-DeRego and Monique Camarena as they explore the Klamath Salmon Festival, The Stick Games, and the river’s exciting renewal process.
If you’d like more information on the salmon festival, you can read more at https://www.yuroktribe.org/salmon-festival.
Credit to Monique Camarena for the video thumbnail.
May 17, 2024 marked “‘O ME-NOK DAY” at Margaret Keating Elementary School (Now the ‘O Me-Nok Learning Center) down in Klamath, California. Redwood Voice’s Monique Camarena and Rory McCain headed down to the event, which was a culmination of several presentations by the Yurok held at the school to educate the Klamath youth on different traditions from the tribe, such as basketry, storytelling and pow-wow drumming.
On Monday, March 18, as part of the Klamath Promise Neighborhood Week Of Celebration & to commemorate the new Salmon Hatching Program at Crescent Elk Middle School, True North held a Family Resource and Cultural Sharing event with guest speakers from the Yurok and Tolowa Tribes. Redwood Voice’s Monique Camarena and Ethan Caudill-DeRego covered the event.
