Nikia M. Pollard, age 17
Cleveland, Ohio USA
Respect your river. Can you imagine what it would be like to take your children and grandchildren to the river and all that there would be to show them is a dry river bed?
Editors Note: Nikia shows two sides of the Cuyahoga river, the past and present. The
students learned that one early settler reported that the Cuyahoga was so gutted with fish in the early days that one could walk across the
river on the backs of the fish. The indian on the left speaks of this abundance while the woman on the right weeps at the state of the river
today.
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