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In this week\u2019s episode, host Daniel Rami talks with Heather Randell, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, about dams and reservoirs that have been built on Native American reservations in the United States. Reservoirs are built by damming a river and flooding an area of land; in the United States, Native American reservations have been disrupted by the construction of reservoirs, dispossessed of their land despite longstanding treaties with the US government. Randell discusses the history of the development of dams on reservation lands, the social and economic effects of dams on Native nations, and how the repair or removal of dams can benefit Native nations today.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cDams and Tribal Land Loss in the United States\u201d by Heather Randell and Andrew Curley; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acd268\n\n\u201cDammed Indians\u201d by Michael L. Lawson; https://books.google.com/books/about/Dammed_Indians.html?id=uuPAasyix8EC\n\n\u201cYellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman\u2019s Search for Justice in Indian Country\u201d by Sierra Crane Murdoch; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545014/yellow-bird-by-sierra-crane-murdoch/