 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing History of the Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux Michael L. Lawson. |
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
|
Paper 416 pages 6 x 9 inches 20 b&w photographs, maps ISBN: 9780979894015 |
|||||||||
More than twenty-five years after the publication of Dammed Indians, Michael Lawson revisits his classic work. The 1944 Pick-Sloan Plan created a wealth of economic opportunities for the states lying along the Missouri River. But the project also flooded more than two hundred thousand acres of bottomlands that helped to sustain the Sioux (Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Indians) and forced the relocation of whole communities. Dammed Indians Revisited examines how the work of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation affected the communities along the river, demonstrating the unequal relationship between the tribes and the federal government. Lawson has unearthed new information, revising his original work to bring the story up to date. While the flooding occurred more than sixty years ago, the impact of the plan and its ramifications for continuing tribal-federal relations remain relevant in the twenty-first century. Michael Lawson is a historical consultant with Morgan, Angel & Associates in Washington, DC, and has written extensively on American Indian history. Lawson's work can also be found in The Sioux in South Dakota History: A Twentieth-Century Reader edited by Richmond L. Clow. Reviews from LibraryThing.com can be found at this link. Reviews of the original version on Amazon.com can be viewed by here and here. Click on the link to read an excerpt from this book, or download below. Read a blog review of this book by clicking on the link. A great blog review of this book can be found here. "A thoughtful, heavily researched and soberly presented scholarly accounting."—The Midwest Book Review Read the whole review from Midwest Book Review, here. Read a review of this book from the Bismarck Tribune. |
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
