Yurok attorney to discuss Klamath River restoration memoir in AshlandYurok attorney to discuss Klamath River restoration memoir in Ashland
Amy Bowers Cordalis, an attorney in Ashland, Oregon, and a member of the Yurok Tribe, will discuss her memoir “The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life” at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, at the Ashland Public Library, according to Ashland.news. Cordalis served as general counsel for the Yurok Tribe and played a central legal role in the removal of all four Klamath River dams in 2024.
According to Ashland.news, Cordalis’s book chronicles her family’s decades-long legal fight to restore the Klamath River and protect Yurok fishing and water rights. She said the event is intended to bring community members together to recognize the river restoration effort. The talk is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing, according to the publication.
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