Damming the Reservation Volume 23 - 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, the construction of the Garrison Dam meant the flooding of a third of their land, the loss of their homes, and wrenching relocation.