Historian author to speak on Native Americans and Missouri River
Lawson will discuss the impact of the dams built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Missouri River as part of the Pick-Sloan Plan. His lecture will provide a snapshot of how the Sioux utilized and adapted to the Missouri before the dams were built, and how these projects displaced hundreds of Sioux families, forcing them to move from their homes on resource-rich bottomlands. He will also discuss how government management of the Missouri River has evolved under Pick-Sloan. Lawson will conclude by describing how developments over the last three decades have allowed the Sioux tribes to gain additional compensation from Congress for their original losses and to finally realize more tangible benefits from the Pick-Sloan projects.
A partner in Morgan, Angel & Associates LLC, a historical and public policy consulting firm in Washington, D.C., Lawson is the author of “Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing History of the Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux.”
Lawson’s lecture, which is free and open to the public, was made possible with a grant from the South Dakota Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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