Irrigation, timber, and hydropower : negotiating natural resource development on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, 1904-1945
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Voggesser Garrit ;
- Editeurs : Pablo, Montana Salish Kootenai College Press ;
- Date d'édition : [2017]
- ISBN : 978-1-934594-19-3
- Sujets : Irrigation -- Histoire -- États-Unis -- Montana (États-Unis) 1900-1945, Réserves indiennes, Foresterie, Indiens d'Amérique, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana -- Government relations, Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.), Kerr Dam (Mont.), Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes, Montana, Flathead Indian Reservation Irrigation and Power Project -- HistoryFlathead Indian Reservation Irrigation and Power Project
- Comprend : Negotiating natural resource development on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, 1904-1945
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (141 p.), : Ill., carte, couv. ill. en coul., 26 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Notes bibliogr. p. [119]-137. Index
Résumé
Une source inconnue indique : 'The Flathead Irrigation Project and the Flathead Lake dam were two early twentieth century enterprises that still reverberate through the twenty-first century Flathead Reservation in western Montana. Voggesser's research in this book has begun to unpeel the origins and history of natural resource conflicts on the reservation. The Flathead Irrigation Project was originally promoted by Senator Joseph M. Dixon as benefiting the Flathead Reservation tribes. It soon morphed into a medium for using tribal funds and assets to benefit white homesteaders. Voggesser tells the story of how competing interests fought to benefit at the expense of the tribes. In the 1920s and early 1930s, a national controversy swirled around the dam site at the foot of Flathead Lake. The lease for the dam site was granted to the Montana Power Company over the objections of the tribes, but the tribes retained ownership and was able to negotiate from a position of strength fifty years later when the lease came up for renewal. Voggesser lays out the struggles by which the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes were able to secure control of reservation resources and build a better future for tribal members.'