The tribes chanted in harmonious unison, their drums the oars pushing the salmon further upstream beyond newly demolished boundaries. Guided solely by memories not directly theirs, they are driven to reach the Klamath basin to spawn a new, free generation who never knew their parents’ odyssey, yet somehow never forgot.

Jimmy is a writer from Portland, Oregon. Having worked in the horticultural side of life for over 30 years, he is now working on a book about his backpacking adventures around South Asia in the early 1990s.