Description:
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 in the face of what Vine Deloria Jr. called "the single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States."
Brief description:
Angela K. Parker (Mandan, Hidatsa, Cree) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Denver.
Review Quotes: "At long last, here is a book that brings the reader to a total understanding of how and why the Three Tribes were removed from their sacred bottomlands along the Missouri River."--Gerard Barker, former Assistant Director, American Indian Relations, National Park Service, Washington, DC