The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life essays and blackwater streams that spreads

and blackwater streams that spreads across the Coastal Plain between the Fall Line and the Atlantic Ocean

and the relationships between these entities

But here also is the unrelenting power of resistance

When Mavasta Honyouti was a boy he would go with his grandfather to their cornfield

a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago

The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life essays and blackwater streams that spreadsA moving multigenerational memoir of Indigenous resistance, environmental justice, and a Yurok family's fight to protect their legacy and the Klamath River. For the members of a Northern California tribe, salmon are the lifeblood of the people a vital source of food, income, and cultural identity. When a catastrophic fish kill devastates the river, Amy Bowers Cordalis is propelled into action, reigniting her family's 170 year battle against the U. S.