Education Events in Eureka

Please join us for a special evening film screening and community conversation in support of Páah Áama Paddle Club, a Native youth culturally based paddlesport program for Karuk Native youth, young adults, and families of the Klamath and Salmon River Basins. The club was formed to establish paddle programs to support the training of youth for the Paddle Tribal Waters Program, and create long lasting programs after the initial Klamath descent journey had concluded. We will also showcase some of the day by day media clips released during the descent by River Roots productions, which features footage of participants in action. We will follow with a discussion with Native youth paddlers who completed the journey, along with Amada Lang (Karuk/Wiyot), a whitewater kayak instructor who participated in the journey alongside this group of youth. Together, we will reflect on tribal land sovereignty through paddling the Klamath River, river stewardship, youth leadership, and the importance of intergenerational connection to land and water.