![A dam project flooded his family's North Dakota home. He waged a historic legal battle to get just compensation. - InForum | Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo news, weather and sports A dam project flooded his family's North Dakota home. He waged a historic legal battle to get just compensation. - InForum | Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo news, weather and sports](https://cdn.forumcomm.com/dims4/default/34e8ef9/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/1200x675!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F97%2F7f%2Fcf08ba2a4cc0b2b21304ebb1ef60%2Fgeorge-gillette-weeps.jpg)
A dam project flooded his family's North Dakota home. He waged a historic legal battle to get just compensation. - InForum | Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo news, weather and sports
![Brett Chapman on X: "George Gillette, leader of the Sahnish, weeps the very moment the forced sale of 155,000 acres of land for the Garrison Dam and Reservoir in North Dakota becomes Brett Chapman on X: "George Gillette, leader of the Sahnish, weeps the very moment the forced sale of 155,000 acres of land for the Garrison Dam and Reservoir in North Dakota becomes](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrlSCxAU8AAajL9.jpg)
Brett Chapman on X: "George Gillette, leader of the Sahnish, weeps the very moment the forced sale of 155,000 acres of land for the Garrison Dam and Reservoir in North Dakota becomes
Solidarity For Humanity - The man crying is George Gillette, tribal chairman of the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa tribes of North Dakota in 1948. He was forced under the threat of death
Solidarity For Humanity - The man crying is George Gillette, tribal chairman of the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa tribes of North Dakota in 1948. He was forced under the threat of death
Social PAC-t - The man who is crying is George Gillette who was the tribal chairman of the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa tribes of North Dakota in 1948. He was crying because
![Tribal rep George Gillette crying as 154,000 acres of land is signed away for a new dam (1948) : r/pics Tribal rep George Gillette crying as 154,000 acres of land is signed away for a new dam (1948) : r/pics](https://external-preview.redd.it/u9RvzdisL_ddhuPYh2YQ2yCZeteHl1AuEWsozTHOBN4.jpg?auto=webp&s=9506013abf4b8161600b5cb12c586973fa9c8971)