The Water Remembers w/ Amy Bowers Cordalis
The Red Nation Podcast
The Red Nation
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
RPH is BACK! Amy Bowers-Cordalis joins RPH Co-host Elena Ortiz to talk about her new book, the liberation of the Klamath River and her family's contributions to that struggle. This is a story of hope and triumph.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the principal barriers to assimilation seems to be the natural tendency of white people |
| 0:09.0 | to violence. They love violence. They love it as entertainment. |
| 0:14.0 | The very foundation of their way of life, death and sacrifice. |
| 0:20.0 | White people, with almost missionary zeal, have done their best to export death and sacrifice. White people with almost missionary zeal |
| 0:22.6 | have done their best to export death and sacrifice |
| 0:25.6 | for every corner of the world. |
| 0:29.6 | We are not American. |
| 0:32.6 | We are not American. |
| 0:34.6 | We are not American. |
| 0:36.6 | We are not American. We are not American. You're not American. |
| 0:38.2 | Better red than dead. |
| 0:40.0 | Better red than dead. |
| 0:42.0 | Better red than death. |
| 0:44.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.7 | Hello. |
| 0:50.2 | This is Elena calling in from Ogaphoge Owinge, otherwise known as Santa Fe. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm one of the co-hosts of Red Power Hour, and I'm flying solo today. |
| 0:59.7 | Melanie is involved in what is going on in Minneapolis. |
| 1:05.0 | So I am thrilled to be here today with Amy Bowers Cordales, who wrote a book called The Water Remembers, My Indigenous |
| 1:14.3 | Families Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life. And it is a beautiful book that made my heart |
| 1:24.9 | sing. And we have talked on Red Power Hour and the Red Nation podcast about the removal of the dams on the Klamath River. |
| 1:32.3 | And we have talked about the return of the salmon. We have talked about the great journey that your young people took on kayaks to traverse the entirety of the claim with, which all of those |
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