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I hope it is being recorded - to share everywhere!

Chi miigwetch - this was such a thoughtfully organized event. Thank you.

is this event being recorded, so we can rewatch later?

I'm sorry to have missed the gathering at Hell's Gate yesterday, but glad to catch this!

I grew up with a free-flowing, wild Snake River just down the road from me. The destruction of that natural wild river through the damming of it broke my young and tender heart. To this day it breaks my heart to see the series of slack-water reservoirs that make up the Lower Snake River. It's not just time, it's past time to breach the 4 LSR dams!!

Chairman is amazing.

Wish the volume was higher! It's a little hard to hear them.

If we use less power, we don't need to produce as much.

Who is the gentleman on the far right, please? He just nailed it about being disconnected from Nature.

Chairman Wheeler is extremely wrong about his ideas. We can't afford "all of the above." Indigenous people have suffered unbelievably from radiation. These small reactors will be buried and forgotten and will contaminate generation after generation in the future. They produce more waste than large reactors and now the U.S. is turning out many tons of the most dangerous stuff humans have ever fabricated. And that's from the 95 large reactors running right now.

Water rights land rights fishing rights

The Elwha dams were removed after much river and plant research. And the upriver water is in protected relatively clean wilderness. What did we learn about the politics of removing dams from that effort that could be applied to the Snake River dam removal effort.

So glad to be attending this event. I have written a book for children about salmon, currently in the hands of an agent. Centers native American culture and values. Greatly needed to be known by children.

I agree with the current speaker. We've been looking for solutions to accommodate the issues of the non-natives. But, little attention is being paid to due care of our native tribes, treaties, wildlife, the environment, creation...

I can't forget having heard Sen Patty Murray announcing that with Gov Insley the decision to take down the dams because they are needed for power generation.

They must move faster

Many people think that fish ladders are sufficient for the movement of fish past dams. A fish biologist friend explained to me that baby fish die in fish ladders, when they're trying to get downstream. They need stronger current to carry them in the right direction; in fish ladders there's not enough current and the baby fish circle and die. Will anyone on your panel address the issue of fish ladders?

Solar uses LOTS of water. Those panels have to be washed every few months to operate efficiently.

Halt war. Put all militaries to work saving our ecosystems throughout the world.

Is there anyone who can talk about the Anishinabek/Iroquois 2017 declaration on the storage of spent nuclear fuel, or High-Level Radioactive Waste?

I am a board member of the Nuclear Energy Information Service. One huge issue among indigenous people is how they have been affected by the radiation released by atomic explosions on their territory and the resulting fallout. In addition the indigenous people mined the uranium without protection because they were lied to. The Indigenous people's population is way down because of thier history. (We are all affected by fallout. We're all downwinders now.) The basic difference between western ideas and indigenous ideas on how to handle High Level Radioactive Waste is this: Westerners want to bury it and forget about it. The indigenous KNOW this is not possible. We cannot bury and forget it. Read the Anishinabek/Iroquois 2017 joint declaration. We have to pay attention to nuclear waste in perpetuity.

¡¡ Real climate solutions are NOT radioactive!

Don't forget the krill or whatever the salmon feed on while in the ocean

Who is adversely impacted if dams are breached ?

Hello........ Yes, to protect