Damming the Reservation: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold

Damming the Reservation: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold"The single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States," Vine Deloria Jr. called it. For the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara communities living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the construction of the Garrison Dam as part of the New Deal era Pick Sloan Missouri Basin Program meant the flooding of a third of their land, including their most fertile agricultural acreage, the loss of their homes, and

who offers insight into the importance of writing to the Navajo people

Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories

and environmental violence puts them at the forefront of new intersectional solidarities in prominent ways

As they reconstruct and deconstruct the aadizookaan

reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law

Some were even temporarily abandoned

until one day in the middle of the night he wakes to a strange noise

Through driving rain and early autumn snow the girls and Ningiuq pick as many sweet berries as their buckets can hold

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a mining family whose patriarch was a sheriff in the lawless early days of Arizona statehood

about dances and sharing and gratitude

and that he is destined to battle dark ancient forces that are planning to retake control of the Middleworld