The federal government has arbitrarily determined
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:20 am
The Lost River Sucker may be endangered, there is renewed interest in the sacred sucker. “By continuing this ceremony the Klamath Tribes are ensuring the survival of both a species and our Tribal traditions,” the Klamath Tribes state.
With help from dominant media sources such as the AP, the real issues of breach of contract to effect the federal agenda of rural cleansing are being sidestepped and blame is being shifted to the cultural insensitivity of area farmers.
Last April 6 Klamath Basin Farmers were informed job function email list by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation that irrigation water from the state of Oregon's Klamath Lake would not be allowed to flow through the some 3,000 miles of privately-owned irrigation canals that supply more than 1,000 farms with water. The feds claimed that the endangered status of suckers and salmon warranted their decision (The Idaho Observer, Aug., Sept, 2001).
Farmers had no warning and had already invested in the seed, equipment and field preparations that normally preceed the flow of irrigation water.
The Klamath Tribes, whose strict adherence to tradition also allows them to justify organized gambling at its Klam-Mo-Ya Casino, apparently do not understand that they are being used by a U.S. government that will betray farmers for fish in this century as easily as it betrayed Indians in everything the last two centuries.
With help from dominant media sources such as the AP, the real issues of breach of contract to effect the federal agenda of rural cleansing are being sidestepped and blame is being shifted to the cultural insensitivity of area farmers.
Last April 6 Klamath Basin Farmers were informed job function email list by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation that irrigation water from the state of Oregon's Klamath Lake would not be allowed to flow through the some 3,000 miles of privately-owned irrigation canals that supply more than 1,000 farms with water. The feds claimed that the endangered status of suckers and salmon warranted their decision (The Idaho Observer, Aug., Sept, 2001).
Farmers had no warning and had already invested in the seed, equipment and field preparations that normally preceed the flow of irrigation water.
The Klamath Tribes, whose strict adherence to tradition also allows them to justify organized gambling at its Klam-Mo-Ya Casino, apparently do not understand that they are being used by a U.S. government that will betray farmers for fish in this century as easily as it betrayed Indians in everything the last two centuries.