 As for the 2 @,@ 000 Athabascan Indians , they could not but be better off than they are now . Their villages are flooded intermittently by the Yukon . Their habitations are miserable and their livelihood a bare subsistence supplemented by relief . Construction of the Rampart Dam will give them ample gainful employment , and in their new locations , chosen by them on the lake 's borders , they will have better homes , better community facilities and a permanent income from now nonexistent activities , generated by the lake . 
