The hydropower dams on the Columbia River flooded villages ... Tribal nations helped draw up a road map for the future of the region’s energy and salmon. Under the agreement, approved by ...

The hydropower dams on the Columbia River flooded villages ... Tribal nations helped draw up a road map for the future of the region’s energy and salmon. Under the agreement, approved by ...

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When the dams were first erected on the Columbia River system, they held tremendous promise. Among the benefits: clean energy, easy river navigation and irrigation for farmers across the region.

The hydropower dams on the Columbia River flooded villages, disrupted economies and ways of life and continue to harm people indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, according to a first-of-its-kind ...