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Angela K. Parker, PhD, associate professor of history at the University of Denver and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold, will speak about her recent book, Damming the Reservation: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold. The book traces the impact of the Garrison Dam in the mid-twentieth century transformed the Missouri River and flooded more than one-quarter of the Fort Berthold Reservation. Parker shows how the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara people resisted dispossession and asserted sovereignty in the face of federal power. Her talk connects this history of land, water, and activism to the exhibition Dripping Earth: Cannupa Hanska Luger, on view through March 8, 2026, which also explores how the legacies of extraction and displacement continue to shape Native communities today.