With support from the California Arts Council, Páah Áama Paddle Club will connect Indigenous youth in the Klamath River basin with opportunities to embrace traditional river-based culture, helping them harvest cultural materials and learn from Karuk master basket weaver Wilverna Reece. They will learn from Storytellers within their own tribal communities who will share cultural stories of how the River has sustained Native cultures from time immemorial and then learn to create their own stories that this generation of youth can pass on to the next. With last year’s completion of the largest dam removal in history, the Klamath River is now flowing freely for 300+ miles for the first time in a century so this Project allows Native youth to directly experience the revitalization not only of the watershed, but also their traditional cultures.