Floyd Montclair

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This 28-page pamphlet, dated June 16, 1945, written by Three Affiliated Tribes Floyd Montclair, includes an introduction laying out four “fundamental facts” regarding the bad faith and lack of principle shown by the United States government in its dealings with Native peoples, especially in projects such as the Garrison Dam. Also includedf are several resolutions personal statements denouncing the Garrison Dam project, including statements from Montclair, Thomas S. Wolf, James Thornberg, and US Representative Usher Burdick. The pamphlet includes two poems, one authored by Langston Hughes and one authored by Myrtle K. Cherryman, and concludes with a 1941 petition signed by over 250 enrolled members of the Fort Berthold Americans Incorporated urging the United States Congress to pass the Tribes' $400,000 claim.

The pamphlet is marked on its cover with the handwritten annotation, “To U.S. Senator William A. Langer with compliments - Martin Cross.”

Date of Work

6-16-1945

Keywords

Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Mandan, Nueta, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sahnish, Indian Affairs, Elbowoods, Christopher Columbus, Treaty of Fort Laramie, claims, reservation system, Dowes Act, Great White Father, Garrison Diversion, Garrison Reservoir, Garrison Dam, denouncing the Garrison Dam, Missouri RIver, vested rights

Organizations Referenced

Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Mandan, Nueta, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sahnish, Tribal Council of the Fort Berthold Three Affiliated Tribes, Fort Berthold Americans Incorporated

People Referenced

Martin Cross, Christopher Columbus, William Langer, Douglas Stanish, Sam Lincoln, James Baker, Usher Burdick, C.H. Beitzel, Earl Bateman, Walter Young Bear, Sam Badgun, Robert Lincoln, Phillip Snow, Martin Fox, Richard Burr, Phillip Atkins, Oscar Burr, Langson Hughes, Myrtle K. Cherryman, Thomas S. Wolf, James Thornberg, William Lemke, Marin Cross, Fred Wheeler, Harvey Hopkins, Clyde Plenty, Pat Malnourie, Tony Perkins, Burr Crow Breast, Matthew White Bear, Perry C. Ross, John W. Smith, Adrian Baker, Victor Mandan, Frank Birds Bill, Douglass Standish, Carl W. Sterud, Roy Crows Heart, Henry Perkins, George Lewis, William Bears Tail, Frank Young Bear, Victor Mason, Don Little Owl, Lee Hill, Carl Sylvester

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