After over a century, salmon have returned to the upper Klamath River, waters that hadn’t seen their shimmer since the early 1900s. The nation’s largest dam removal project has reawakened the river, freeing it from four massive barriers that once halted its flow and silenced the salmon runs that sustained Indigenous tribes for millennia. The Klamath, Shasta, Karuk, Yurok, and Hoopa Valley peoples see this as both a victory and a responsibility, a rebirth tempered by the question: what are the fi