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Boom or Bust: Oil industry hits North Dakota

NEW TOWN, North Dakota — Ed Danks had just completed first grade when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began flooding the Fort Berthold Reservation during the mid-1950s to create the manmade Lake Sakakawea. Danks remembers chasing a bouncing rubber ball down a slope near the family home when it rolled into the rising Missouri River. The flooding and relocation of at least 80 percent of Mandan,…
Source: Red Lake Nation News

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