Interior Department and Army Corps Announce Restoration of Tribal Lands for the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation; Transfer Restores Nearly 25,000 Acres of Tribal Homelands Lost to the Garrison Dam Project

This news release, dated December 20, 2016, from the United States (US) Department of the Interior and the US Assistant Secretary of the Army announces the return of 24,959 acres of land on the Fort Berthold Reservation to the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. The returned land was part of the 153,000 acres of land taken by the United States Government for construction of the Garrison Dam. The authority of this transfer is granted by the Fort Berthold Mineral Restoration Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-602). This press release provides some background on the Garrison Dam Project and the process behind the land return. Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Lawrence S. Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcy, and Three Affiliated Tribes Tribal Chairman Mark Fox provide comments for the press release.https://commons.und.edu/indigenous-gov-docs/1180/thumbnail.jp