"The American Gov forced this Chief to sign away 1/4 of the tribe's Reserve Land for a Hydro project. They told him they were going to flood it anyway even if he didn't agree. It was common to flood Indigenous villages who didn't sign onto hydo development. This shit drives me crazy. #WhatsChanged??
History:
Picture: "George Gillette, chairman of the Fort Berthold Indian Tribal Council, weeps as he watches Secretary of the Interior A.J. King sign the Pick Sloan Flood Control Act. May 20, 1948. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_Control_Act_of_1944
Summary: the Flood Control Act did successfully control flooding of the Missouri River, but at the cost of flooding lands which had previously belonged to Native Americans. They lost 202,000 acres and were forced to relocate.
- Original Story by William G. Rodriguez - find him on Facebook.