THE GRAND SALMON IS NOW STREAMING

As wild salmon populations in Idaho approach extinction, three women embark on a 1,000 mile expedition to take on four dams at the heart of the salmon’s catastrophic decline.

Following three women on a 78-day paddling expedition, The Grand Salmon explores the effects of four dams on the Lower Snake River and their impact throughout the watershed on rapidly dwindling wild salmon populations. For over 1,000 miles, these women navigate the same waterways wild salmon have for generations, connecting the source of the Salmon River to the Pacific Ocean. From high water to extreme temperatures, this team not only faces the same natural challenges the fish do each year, but brings viewers along to experience what the construction of these dams has done to our ecosystems and wildlife.

We acknowledge we live and traveled on stolen, Indigenous lands and waters throughout this journey. Our goal is to elevate the voices of the Indigenous populations who have had their culture and way of life stripped from them by the impacts of these dams and the declining Snake River Basin salmon populations. 

We would like to recognize that we have traveled on and through the stolen lands of the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce), Pohogues (Shoshone-Bannock), Agaidika (Lemhi-Shoshone), Palouse, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs including the Cayusa, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Wasco and Wishram, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde including the Cascades, Chinook, Multnomah Chinook, Cathlamet Chinook, Skilloot Chinook; Chinook Indian Nation, including the Lower Chinook, Clatsop, Kathlamet, Wahkiakum, and Willapa; Yakama Nation including Yakama, Klickitat, and Walla Walla, Coleville, Wanapum, Burns Paiute Tribe, Coeur d’Alene Tribe, Kalispel, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Northwestern band of the Shoshone Nation, Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, and the Spokane.

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