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Fast
Facts
- Initial settlement for tribal land flooded by Garrison Dam:$5.1 million
- Cost of constructing Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Washburn, N.D.: $6 million
- Cost of building Garrison Dam: $294 million
- Revenue from sale of electricity generated by Garrison Dam in 2000: $31.3 million
- Estimated population of Indian villages near Fort Mandan in 1804: 5,000
- Population of Fort Berthold Reservation today: 3,776
- Approximate size of reservation established by 1851 treaty: 13.5 million acres
- Size of reservation today: 988,000 acres
- Prime farm and ranch land lost to upper Missouri River reservoirs: 1.2 million acres
- Cropland brought into cultivation by reservoir
projects: 465,000 acres
- Unemployment rate on Fort Berthold reservation: 42 percent
- Statewide unemploymen rate in North Dakota: 2.8 percent
- Number of tribes encountered by Lewis and Clark in the West: 47
- Number of official "trail tribes" recognized by National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial: 58
Sources: Three Affiliated
Tribes, North Dakota Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Foundation,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Western Area Power Administration,
National Academy of Sciences, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National
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