Racial tensions build over dams

"Save Our Salmon. Eat Indian Gillnetters," read the sign outside a February hearing held to discuss dam breaching. As eastern Washington tribal leaders fight to remove four federal damns on the Snake and Columbia rivers, non-Native residents of the area question the tribes' roles as preservers and harvesters of salmon. Some tribal residents feel racial animosity building against them.

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Dam-breaching battle generates racial tensions (Spokesman Review 4/14)

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