Edward Lone Fight

Edward Lone Fight served as Chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes in the late 1980s.

In 1988 Lone Fight met with President Ronald Reagan, a meeting which was the catalyst for the tribes receiving compensation from the flooding of reservation due to the construction of the Garrison Dam under the Pick-Sloan Legislation. The son of Mabel Good Bird and Theodore Lone Fight, Edward is also a direct descendant of Waheenie Wea (Buffalo Bird Woman) Sheheke, Chief Four Bears and other notableAmerican Indians. He is of the "WaterBuster" Clan and is a child of the "Low Cap" Clan.

"Lone Fight" is a broad family name related exclusively to the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation of the Fort Berthold Reservation inNorth Dakota.