The government had the option to pay a fair price for those lands but they didn't.
政府本来是有机会出个公道价买下那些地的,但他们没这么做。
Skyremmer102121 赞2026/4/19
Which makes it all the more tragic
这让整件事显得更悲剧了。
No-One989031 赞2026/4/19
What was going on?
当时到底发生了什么?
Wooden_Coffee_9482252 赞2026/4/19
george gillette the leader of the mandan hidatsa arikara the three affiliated nations was forced to sign away 155,000 acres for the garrison dam, Garrison Dam project, which flooded 94% of the tribe's agricultural land and forced them to relocate
So their homes and ancestral burial grounds and religious lands and monuments all underwater or demolished...
所以他们的家园、祖坟、宗教圣地和遗迹全都沉在水底或者被拆毁了……
Wooden_Coffee_9482190 赞2026/4/19
not only that the land that was destroyed was extremely rich and fertile
不仅如此,被毁掉的那些地可是肥得流油的良田啊。
Wooden_Coffee_948293 赞2026/4/19
yeah, from what i read they didnt recover from it yet
是啊,我看过资料,他们到现在都没缓过劲儿来。
lewisfairchild31 赞2026/4/19
they never recovered from it
他们压根就没恢复过来。
No-One989026 赞2026/4/19
Wow, thats horrible
哇,那也太惨了。
Sacharon12322 赞2026/4/19
!Why was there no option? I mean, depends how caring your goverment is in history and values I guess...
为啥没得选啊?我觉得吧,这事儿主要还是看你那政府在历史观和价值观上到底有多“上心”……
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Wooden_Coffee_948224 赞2026/4/19
the government pressured him into doing so
是政府逼他这么干的。
Mercury_Madulller69 赞2026/4/19
Considering we could now replace all the hydro plants, with nuclear plants in about 10 years, and undo all the ecological damage they caused. Yeah, horrifically tragic.
>ecological damage caused by building nuclear power plants You mean with the resevoirs or something? Or are you just assuming that there's a dozen little Chernobyls in the Mississippi watershed that just aren't being covered?
I will reword that statement, did not mean that as taken in that context.
你是指水库那档子事儿?还是说你觉得密西西比河流域其实藏着十几个切尔诺贝利,只不过没人报道而已?
tokegar29 赞2026/4/19
Nuclear is an objectively safe option for renewable energy, but I will say that I wrote a paper in law school about the environmental exploitation of tribal sovereignty land and how so much of America's uranium (specifically for the Manhatten project and related weapons development) came from Navajo reservation land that has never been conclusively remediated. It's sickening how all of the "treaties" signed by this country with Native American nations are broken irreparably at every turn.
Boarding schools would use the phrase. “Kill the Indian, save the man”
他们估计根本不在乎吧。毕竟当时他“只是个印第安人”。
Phone-Medical36 赞2026/4/20
Now they use the phrase “Gillette, the best a man can get!”
现在他们都用那句“吉列,男人的极致!”(Gillette, the best a man can get!)
Profilio9049 赞2026/4/20
They saw the "Indians" as savages and believed they were being wasteful with all their fertile land / resources. Taking land from the godless savages to put to use was doing the Lord's work in their mind. See "manifest destiny" for more.
and even that didnt work as we’re still here and have our own people working against everything the government did to our ancestors, the stories from the boarding schools/residential schools are gut wrenching and absolutely disgusting
The book Cadillac Desert has a section describing the displacement of the 3 tribes relocated for this dam. The hydrologic benefits were extremely minor and retaining some of the most fertile agricultural land in the Dakotas was never an option in negotiations. This was one of the stories that made me the most frustrated in that book, however there are many more.
> The Fort Berthold Indians have never recovered from the trauma they underwent. Their whole sense of cohesiveness was lost, and they adjusted
badly to life on the arid plains and in the white towns. But no humiliation could have been greater than for them to see the signs that were erected
around the reservoir as it slowly filled, submerging the dying cottonwoods and drowning the land they had occupied for at least four hundred years. In
what looked to the Indians like a stroke of malevolent inspiration, the Corps of Engineers had decided to call the giant, turbid pool of water Lake Sacajawea.
> “伯特霍尔德堡(Fort Berthold)的印第安人至今都没能从当年的创伤中走出来。他们整个民族的凝聚力彻底散了,也没法适应干燥平原和白人城镇的生活。但最令他们感到屈辱的,莫过于看着那些竖立在水库周围的告示牌——随着水库水位慢慢上涨,淹没了垂死的棉白杨,也淹没了他们居住了至少四百年的土地。在印第安人看来,工程兵部队(Corps of Engineers)搞出的这摊浑浊巨水,还起名叫‘萨卡加维亚湖’(Lake Sacajawea),简直是丧尽天良的恶毒点子。”
nomamesgueyz76 赞2026/4/19
As part of the US and their genocide over Native Americans
这是美国对印第安人进行种族灭绝的一部分
atwaterrich26 赞2026/4/19
This way of thinking about history has been officially outlawed. Please replace crying man with joyful one. Insert apologist and supremacist arguments for genocide into all references. Only positive statements allowed going forward. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION.
The tribe has had a huge influx of money over the past 15 years, sitting right over the heart of the Bakken oil play. A blessing and a curse
过去15年,部落因为坐拥巴肯油田的核心区域,获得了巨额收入。祸福相依啊。
basileusnikephorus5 赞2026/4/19
The intrusive thoughts are telling me to post the Phil Leotardo quote ...
脑子里一直有个声音叫我发菲尔·利奥塔多的语录……
corsicanbandit5 赞2026/4/19
Why did he do it?
他为什么这么做?
SimpleZestyclose63974 赞2026/4/20
Aaaah the famous good old Times when White men could do what they wanted openly without any back fire
啊,好日子啊,那时候白人就可以为所欲为,毫无顾忌。
No-Obligation41474 赞2026/4/23
America really is one of the most delusional and backwards countries on the planet. Absolutely no fucks given about anyone or anything unless they can abuse it, use it and steal it. The. Make a film about how they were the victims. I can’t stand the inability to actually see wrong, doubling down on it and then electing the single worst human born to be the poster boy of that 3rd world backwards shithole. Get shot in the face by a school child and you’ll lose your house paying for having surgery.
George Gillette is my great-great grandfather. I’ve seen this photograph thousands of times, and even now when I see it, I get emotional. For me, this photo personifies historical trauma. Our tribe is known as the Three Affiliated Tribes or the MHA (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara) Nation … and we’re still here.
Navajos were smart with their dealings with us gov tho
纳瓦霍人跟咱们政府打交道时挺聪明的
irasleepsover1 赞2026/4/21
The tragedy of helplessness is really felt in this image.
这张图让人真切地感受到了那种无能为力的悲剧。
irasleepsover1 赞2026/4/21
The tragedy of helplessness is really felt in this image.
这张图让人真切地感受到了那种无能为力的悲剧。
peachybum68jk691 赞2026/4/22
Heart-wrenching
让人心碎
openmic10761 赞2026/4/22
💔
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SimpleEntrepreneur821 赞2026/4/22
Great book.
很棒的书。
Aggravating_Alps_9111 赞2026/4/22
womp womp womp
唉,真让人唏嘘
Revolutionary_Bet4681 赞2026/4/22
Not trying to argue but I always thought that Jewish people and Native Americans got fucked over more than anyone else. Circassians in the top 3 as well, and if you don't know who they are there's a sad reason for it.