Dammed Indians

The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980

by Michael Lawson

The 1944 Pick-Sloan Plan in the Missouri River Basin, developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, resulted in the flooding of more than 200,000 acres of precious Sioux bottomlands--arguably the single most destructive act perpetrated against an Indian tribe by the US army in this century. Lawson demonstrates the insensitivity of the federal government in denying the Sioux adequate compensation.

261 pp — ©1994

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