Effect On American Indians
The act transferred ownership of large parcels of land from around the Missouri River, more than 20% of which was owned by Native Americans, to the Corps of Engineers. The Lakota, Dakota and Nakota tribes lost 202,000 acres (820 km2). The Three Affiliated Tribes, specifically, lost 155,000 acres (630 km2) in their Fort Berthold Reservation due to the building of the Garrison Dam. This project caused more than 1,500 American Indians to relocate from the river bottoms of the Missouri river due to the flooding.
The project has successfully controlled flooding throughout the Missouri river basin, provided water for irrigation and municipalities, generated baseload power throughout the central US, and is a truly great place for fishing, hunting, and watersports.
A possible down side. The Missouri River (The Big Muddy), dumped millions of cubic feet of soil into the Mississippi River every year, which, in turn deposited this silt into the gulf and formed a string of barrier islands. When the silt was eliminated this island building stopped. Biologists sounded the alarm in the 1970s. By the 1990s the barrier islands were pretty much gone. Without those islands Louisana was left unprotected from storm surges and oil spills
Read more about this topic: Flood Control Act Of 1944
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