8012

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8012
• Author: Grand Canyon Trust.
• Title: Colorado River Workshop, issues, ideas, and directions ‎(February 26-28, 1996 Phoenix, Arizona)‎ An open forum for discussion of management issues between managers, water users, and stakeholders of the Colorado River basin.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: 1996.
• Copyright Material: NO

INTEGRATING NATIVE AMERICAN
ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL INTERESTS
INTO THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN

Kurt E. Dongoske

Prepared for discussion purposes for the Colorado River Workshop. The paper is the work of the individual
author and does not represent the opinion of Grand Canyon Trust or the Bureau of Reclamatiion.

Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shifts from fresh air to
poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians,
even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and
fall in our democratic faith...

INTRODUCTION

The Grand Canyon Trust, under contract to the Bureau
of Reclamation (Reclamation), is conducting a study to
assist Reclamation and the Department of the Interior
in acquiring information that may be of use in fulfill-
ing Interior agencies' duties relating to present and
future water resource needs in the Colorado River
Basin. On behalf of the Secretary of the Interior,

KURT E. DONGOSKE has seventeen years of profes-
sional experience in archaeology and cultural resource
management, including five years as the Tribal
Archaeologist with the Cultural Preservation Office
of the Hopi Tribe.

Hopi
217 West Mahoney
Winslow, AZ 86047

Felix S. Cohen (1953)

Reclamation plays a crucial role in the management of
the many resources of the Colorado River for diverse,
often competing, and sometimes directly conflicting
federal, state, private, public and Native American
needs. In its unique role as water master for the main-
stream Colorado River water, Reclamation is charged
with developing long-range management criteria for
the river system and its reservoirs. There is a critical
need to explore innovative, flexible, and adaptive
strategies in order to responsibly adjust to changing
long-term demands on these valuable resources. The
Grand Canyon Trust's objective for this project is to
identify critical management issues and provide a
basin-wide forum for the free and open discussion of
these management issues by stakeholders. The stake-
holders have been broadly defined, by the Grand
Canyon Trust, as federal and state agencies with

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