Draft:Keyen Singer

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Introduction

Keyen Singer is a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; she also is a mentor for the tribe's youth council and is leading the "Stand with Native Youth to Save the Salmon". Keyen is also a part of the 2023-2024 Miss Indigenous UO, supporting Indigenous youth wanting to pursue a higher education and learn more about reviving their cultural and language. ^[1]

Keyen is the great-granddaughter of Loretta "Chet" Halfmoon, who is one of the only women who fought for her tribe when The Dalles Dam was built and ended up flooding one of the most important fisheries and destroying a native trading site. She fought for decades, which entailed being arrested and sent to jail multiple times, to ensure her tribe had rights to fishing on the Columbia River. ^[2]

Keyen has focused a lot of her work into restoring salmon populations in the Columbia Basin for her tribe. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that in this area that the chinook salmon will be extinct by 2060. ^[3] This will be devastating to Keyen's Tribe. Keyen and another youth from her Tribe has sent a letter to President Biden asking for help to restore the habitat for salmon in the Columbia Basin, saying "America made a deal and promised that we would be able to fish forever. We can't fish is there aren't any salmon left." ^[4] Keyen is heart- broken when she thinks of many generations of her people and how they had to fight so much to save their ecosystems and traditions, but this where she feels she gets her strength to continue to fight for her tribe. ^[2]

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