{"product_id":"book-iqwh","title":"The Water Remembers","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Yurok Tribe and an Indigenous family share a moving multigenerational story of their fight to undam the Klamath river—the largest river restoration project in history—and save the planet. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes exclusive audio content!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Water Remembers\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Indigenous resistance and an American family’s fight to preserve its legacy. For more than half a century, between 1905 and 1962, the Federal government constructed one of the largest reclamation projects in the country at the headwaters of the Klamath River, comprised of four dams. They did not include salmon ladders and this denied fish access to hundreds of miles of historical habitat. This oversight and other decisions not to release water for the endangered species of fish and Tribal water rights led to increased water temperatures and toxic algae pollution, which killed hundreds of thousands of salmon. This ecocide destroyed the fishing, hunting, and gathering lifestyle of the Yurok Tribe—the largest in Northern California—preventing them from making a dignified living.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A blend of memoir and history, \u003ci\u003eThe Water Remembers \u003c\/i\u003espeaks passionately to environmental justice and conservation, as well as responsible stewardship. Engrossing, Amy Bowers Cordalis recounts her twenty-year fight against the United States government, chronicling how she evolved from a naïve Westernized 22-year-old to an advocate for her people. As General Counsel for the Yurok Tribe, she ensured the removal of the dams in December 2024.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is a story that should be in American history books. Cordalis shares her family’s generational fight for Indigenous respect that resulted in federal recognition of their cultural and ceremonial water rights. Her great uncle sued the State of California for the Yurok people to retain fishing rights and jurisdiction to regulate its own fishery. A case that made it all the way to the Supreme Court and involved the federal government putting a moratorium on all Yurok fishing, and physical enforcement from federal marshals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Water Remembers \u003c\/i\u003einvolves genocide, assimilation, and oppression, but victory, in protecting one’s home, environment, and way of life.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe audiobook edition features original Yurok songs and interwoven archival and newly recorded oral histories, preserving generations of Indigenous storytelling and cultural memory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50246474236208,"sku":"BDiqwh","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/iqwh-cover.jpg?v=1765932046","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-iqwh","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}