How has agriculture engaged with uprooting? From its onset, the project of settler colonialism in the United States has valued the domination of land and water. The expansion of industrial agriculture throughout the twentieth century bridged the colonization of land and water through federally funded irrigation. Here, I discuss how the rise of agriculture in the Yakima River Basin–one of the most heavily irrigated regions in the country –contributed to histories of dispossession. I examine the Yakima River as a relational site of inheritance and entitlement, entangling my own family’s history and the decimation of three native salmon runs.