"Dammed Indians Revisited"

Michael Lawson's work over three decades, including his classic work, "Dammed Indians," provided the factual basis for Congressional legislation establishing tribal recovery trust funds totaling $385.8 million for five Sioux tribes in the Dakotas and Nebraska in compensation for reservation infrastructure lost to Federal dam projects.  Lawson's book "Dammed Indians Revisited" is a 2012 One Book South Dakota Selection.  He visited with Karl Gehrke at Barnes & Noble in Sioux Falls Friday during the Festival of Books.   He