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<br />4208 <br /> <br />Poachers are runnlng rampant. klll1ng game on the Southern <br />Ute Reservation because the Indians have refused to enforce game laws <br />ever slnce the state of Colorado broke off its cooperat1ve agreement <br />on game and f1sh management in 1990. <br /> <br />Reservat10n populat10ns have dropped by about a th1rd since <br />1995 when the Ind1ans sank to new depths of poverty after the count1es <br />began refuslng all health care and the state refused all social <br />serv1ces because of Ind1an challenge to jur1sdiction. Four federal <br /> <br />appeals court cases are pending over these ~5sues. <br /> <br />Tour1sm 1n Dolores, La Plata and Montezuma Count1es 1s down <br />10 to 20 percent because of stor1es of the hostilities between Ind1ans <br />and wh1tes. F1ghts in the schools between Ind1an and non-Indian <br />chlldren are a regular th1ng. The Indian bingo hall was closed after <br />a fatal stabbing of a non-Indian. Then there were two mysterious <br />deaths of Indians, one beh1nd a Cortez restaurant, one 1n the middle <br />of Durango. No new 1ndustry has come to the Ind1an reservations. <br />V1rtually all businesses on reservat10ns have closed. An atmosphere <br />of b1tterness has hastened dec1s10ns by many farmers to g1ve up. <br /> <br />Who won the Supreme Court case? Who won, indeed! <br /> <br />At the 23rd Southwest Water Use and Management Sem1nar of the <br />Southwestern Water Conservat10n 01 str1ct there appeared a panel of <br />three attorneys. Although the pub11c knows better, the attorneys try <br /> <br />- 3 - <br />