WSPC01188

• File Number: 8064
• Description: Indian Water Rights
• State: CO
• Date: 1/1/1987
• Author: American Indian Reso
• Title: Tribal Water Management Handbook
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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INDIAN WATER IN MODERN TRIBAL POUCYMAKlNG

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1-5. CONCLUSION

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Recently, tribal leaders have had to deal with outside institutions, mainly the
Congress and the couns in order to solidify tribal powers and resource rights. In the
years to come, tribal councils are likely to give increasing anemion to internal tribal
structures in order to consolidate and to build upon the achievements of the modern
era.

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Water management will be central to this process for most tribes. Water is
simply too imponant to Indian Country to be lost by default. This Handbook is
addressed to that spirit and to the emerging corps of tribal water managers.

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REFERENCE NOTES

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1. 25 U.S.c. ~~ 331-381.
2. 25 U.S.C. 99 461-479.
3. Act of August 15. 1953. ch. 505. 67 Slat. 588 (section 7 repealed and reenacted as amended in
1968) (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. 9 1162 (1982). 25 U.S.C. 99 1321-1325 (1982) (28
U.S.c. 9 1360 (1982)).
4. 358 U.S. 217. 79 S. Ct. 269. 3 L.Ed.2d 251 (1959).
5. 43 U.S.C. H 1601-1628.
6. 25 U.S.C. H 903,903f.
7. 25 U.S.C. is 450a-45Oo.
8. 25 U.S.C. 991901-1963.
9. S.1. Res. 102, 95th Con8.. 2d Sess" Pub. L. No. 95-341. 92 Slat. 469 (codified in part aI 42 U.S.C.
9 1996 & Note).
10. 373 U.S. 546 (1963). 83 S. Cl. 1468. 10 L.Ed.2d 542, decree enwed, 376 U.S. 340 (1964).
11. Washington v, Washington Stale Commercial Passenger FislUng Vessel Ass',., 443 U.S. 658. 99 S.
Cl. 3055. 61 L.Ed.2d823 (1979).
12. See. e.g., Counry ofO~ldo v, O~lda Indian Nallon, 470 U.S. 226.105 S. Cl. 1245.84 L.Ed,2d
169 (1985).
13. Colorado River Conservalion Dislrict v. United Stales, 424 U.S. 800. 96 S. Cl. 1236,47 L.Ed.2d
483 (1976).
14. Arizona v. San Carlos ApacM Tribe of Arizona, 463 U.S. 545, 103 S. Cl. 3201. 77 L.Ed.2d 837
(1983).
15. OlipJuw v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, 435 U.S. 191,98 S. Cl. 1011. 55 L.Ed.2d 209 (1978).
16. 455 U.S. 130, 102 S. Cl. 894, 71 L.Ed.2d 21 (1982).
17. [d. at 455 U.S. 137-38, 102 S. Ct. 901-02 (Cilations omined).
18. United States National Water Comm'n. Water Policies

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SUGGESTED READINGS

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For concise trea.ttnem of federal-tribal policy. see Angie Debe, A History of tM Indians of the
UniJed Slales (University of Oklahoma Press, 1970); Wilcomb Washburn. The Indian in America
(Harper & Row, 1975); and Vine Deloria. Jr.. Clifford M. Lylle, TM No/ions Within: The Past and
Fuzllre of American Indian Sovereignty (Pantheon Books. 1984). Also recommended are Francis Paul