Author: Angela K. Parker
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806195193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
“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 wrenching relocation. In Damming the Reservation, Angela K. Parker, an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes, offers a deeply researched, unflinching history of the tribes’ fight to preserve and rebuild their culture, shared history, common stories, sense of place, and sovereignty. With the richly informed and deeply personal perspective of a historian and descendant of those who survived these events, Parker tracks the riverine communities from 1920 to 1960, in the years before, during, and after the Army Corps of Engineers did its devastating work. By studying the inextricable link between on-the-ground conditions and national policy, she builds a cohesive narrative for twentieth-century Native American history that hinges on the assertion of Indigenous sovereignties. These battles over land, water, and resources that constitute the “territory” required to maintain a working sovereign body are at the very heart of the Native American past, present, and future. The author shows how Indigenous resistance to the Garrison Dam created a new generation of activists, including Tillie Walker, the focus of the book’s epilogue. Damming the Reservation documents what can happen when a settler colonial nation tramples tribal rights while exerting control over rural hinterlands: in this case, the reservation community developed a praxis of self-determination and tribal sovereignty that trickled up to the national level so that tribal meanings came to saturate federal Indian policy. This is a history whose lessons echo through today’s most pressing environmental justice crises.
Damming the Reservation
Author: Angela K. Parker
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806195193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
“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 wrenching relocation. In Damming the Reservation, Angela K. Parker, an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes, offers a deeply researched, unflinching history of the tribes’ fight to preserve and rebuild their culture, shared history, common stories, sense of place, and sovereignty. With the richly informed and deeply personal perspective of a historian and descendant of those who survived these events, Parker tracks the riverine communities from 1920 to 1960, in the years before, during, and after the Army Corps of Engineers did its devastating work. By studying the inextricable link between on-the-ground conditions and national policy, she builds a cohesive narrative for twentieth-century Native American history that hinges on the assertion of Indigenous sovereignties. These battles over land, water, and resources that constitute the “territory” required to maintain a working sovereign body are at the very heart of the Native American past, present, and future. The author shows how Indigenous resistance to the Garrison Dam created a new generation of activists, including Tillie Walker, the focus of the book’s epilogue. Damming the Reservation documents what can happen when a settler colonial nation tramples tribal rights while exerting control over rural hinterlands: in this case, the reservation community developed a praxis of self-determination and tribal sovereignty that trickled up to the national level so that tribal meanings came to saturate federal Indian policy. This is a history whose lessons echo through today’s most pressing environmental justice crises.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806195193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
“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 wrenching relocation. In Damming the Reservation, Angela K. Parker, an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes, offers a deeply researched, unflinching history of the tribes’ fight to preserve and rebuild their culture, shared history, common stories, sense of place, and sovereignty. With the richly informed and deeply personal perspective of a historian and descendant of those who survived these events, Parker tracks the riverine communities from 1920 to 1960, in the years before, during, and after the Army Corps of Engineers did its devastating work. By studying the inextricable link between on-the-ground conditions and national policy, she builds a cohesive narrative for twentieth-century Native American history that hinges on the assertion of Indigenous sovereignties. These battles over land, water, and resources that constitute the “territory” required to maintain a working sovereign body are at the very heart of the Native American past, present, and future. The author shows how Indigenous resistance to the Garrison Dam created a new generation of activists, including Tillie Walker, the focus of the book’s epilogue. Damming the Reservation documents what can happen when a settler colonial nation tramples tribal rights while exerting control over rural hinterlands: in this case, the reservation community developed a praxis of self-determination and tribal sovereignty that trickled up to the national level so that tribal meanings came to saturate federal Indian policy. This is a history whose lessons echo through today’s most pressing environmental justice crises.
Damming the Reservation
Author: Angela Kay Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806194615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A historian who grew up on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota tells how the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara communities on the reservation fought and lost the battle against the inundation of a third of their land by federal construction of the Garrison Dam but, in the process, found ways to preserve and rebuild their culture, their shared history, their stories, their sense of place, and their sovereignty"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806194615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A historian who grew up on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota tells how the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara communities on the reservation fought and lost the battle against the inundation of a third of their land by federal construction of the Garrison Dam but, in the process, found ways to preserve and rebuild their culture, their shared history, their stories, their sense of place, and their sovereignty"--
Damming the Bighorn
Author: Megan Kathleen Benson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crow Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crow Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Water-resources Appraisal of the Lower Brule Indian Reservation in Central South Dakota
Author: Kimberly A. Ogle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lower Brule Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lower Brule Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Damming the West
Author: Berkman
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780670254613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780670254613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Indian Issues: Damages and Compensation for Tribes at Seven Reservations Affected by Dams on the Missouri River
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422398814
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422398814
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Reservoir and Reservation
Author: Michael L. Lawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheyenne River Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheyenne River Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Safety Evaluation of Existing Dams Report for Reservation Dam, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Phoenix Area, Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dam safety
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dam safety
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Indian Dams Safety Act of 1993
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Native American Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dam safety
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dam safety
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Damming the Osage
Author: Leland Payton
Publisher: Lens & Pens Press
ISBN: 9780967392585
Category : Bagnell Dam (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
If changed by development, the authors found the present Osage valley landscape expressive. Illustrated with hundreds of color photographs, period maps, and vintage images, this book tells the dramatic saga of human ambition pitted against natural limitations and forces beyond man's control.
Publisher: Lens & Pens Press
ISBN: 9780967392585
Category : Bagnell Dam (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
If changed by development, the authors found the present Osage valley landscape expressive. Illustrated with hundreds of color photographs, period maps, and vintage images, this book tells the dramatic saga of human ambition pitted against natural limitations and forces beyond man's control.