Transcript: Tex Hall
Story of flooding of the reservation
- [Lindberg:]
- Now for the benefit of the people who come to the show— they won’t know any history—I wonder if you’d tell about the dam and the [indiscernible] and the flooding, all that. What happened?
- [Hall:]
- Well, the Garrison Dam was a very traumatic time, and our old people put that equivalent to the small pox. It was two of the worst things that ever happened to our tribe. Most tribes will say it was having to come into a treaty, and notice how we didn’t say those two things. Smallpox was in 1837 and the Garrison Dam was in 1948. There’s a picture that hangs in our chambers that shows the chairman that is crying, Chairman George Gillette was crying. When, basically, he said that this is the saddest day for our people as we’re giving up the best part of our reservation to the United States.