next i will be introducing joey gentry, who's a member of the equity task force, who will be speaking on the water issue in climate thank you. thank you again for being here. klamath has a history of racism that continues to be handed down from generation to generation . our water crisis still exists today because of racism against the tribe and racism against the tribe exists in part today because of our water crisis. i'm just going to read some community sentiment in words and indians. could it get any worse? this is a cowboys and indians fight to bad. we didn't finish the job the 1st time. we are asking you to issue a formal proclamation, acknowledging that a long history of anti indigenous racism has worse and disagreements over water. how i knew i was a native how i knew i was climate indian is because i fished with my dad. we're just asking for our fish to be preserved to prevent them from going extinct a following month, the city council disbanded the task force without acting on his recommendations. ah, lulu, our creation story tells us that the 1st guy that people die. so we

hi, my name is joey gentry and i am a member of the clamor tribe. i am not on our official tribal government and i am not an official spokesperson. i just care deeply about my community, my homeland, my home town, and i just want us to heal. hello bed. welcome to the stream. introduce yourself to our global audience. my name is ben duval and i, i'm a former ah, south o 2 at california along with my wife and 2 daughters, free girl alfalfa and we only climates revelation project. and i'm also the president of clans, water users association of. and i'm not representing the organization in the official capacity here today. i'm just here much like joe just said as, as just somebody who wants to see see some healing in this community. and this, this, it's situation remedy that to handle emma entities herself. i my name is emma maris, i'm an environmental writer, and i live here in klamath falls. so i've been following this water conversation for about 8 years. all right, get to hattie emma. all right, so now you've met our line up. what would you like to