A Yurok Tribe resolution allows cases to be brought on behalf of the river as a person in tribal court.
Yurok Tribe declared rights of personhood for the Klamath River — likely the first to do so for a river in North America. A concept previously restricted to humans (and corporations), “rights of personhood” means, most simply, that an individual or entity has rights, and they’re now being extended to nonhumans.
According to the Yurok Tribe,…
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