With support from the California Arts Council, the Paddle Tribal Waters Storytelling Project will honor the largest dam removal in history underway on the Klamath River by lifting up voices of Native youth as they prepare to be the first to paddle the River as it flows freely for the first time in a century, documenting their journey, supporting them as storytellers and the next generation of leaders to help restore cultural river-based identities. The program equips Indigenous youth to confidently express the importance of this historic moment through verbal, written and visual storytelling – including documentary film and photography – and draws upon ancestral cultural traditions through inter-generational community celebrations. The program reinforces Narrative Sovereignty, allowing Native peoples historically excluded from telling our own stories to have authority over our own identities and cultures.