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7/29/2009 11:10:38 AM
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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8064
Description
Indian Water Rights
State
CO
Date
5/1/1984
Author
Western Governors As
Title
Indian Water Rights in the West
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Report/Study
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<br />-10- <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />1 <br /> <br />the Milk River water users would have been a simple one if <br /> <br /> <br />Congress had included provisions establishing Indian water <br /> <br /> <br />rights in the legislation which created the Fort Belknap <br /> <br /> <br />Reservation. Unfortunately such was not the case. The lack <br /> <br /> <br />of a clearly established Indian water right led the Supreme <br /> <br />., I <br />Court in Winters v. United Stace& ~'to creatively fashion <br /> <br /> <br />a "reserved" Indian water right based on the reasoning that <br /> <br /> <br />Congress must have intended to reserve water for the Indian <br /> <br /> <br />reservation at the time of its creation because such water <br /> <br /> <br />was necessary to convert the "nomadic and uncivilized" Indians <br /> <br /> <br />to "pastoral and civilized people". ~/ Thus, the Winters doctrine, <br /> <br /> <br />or the Indian "reserved water rights" doctrine, was born. <br /> <br />In the seventy-five years since Winters was decided many <br /> <br /> <br />more questions about Indian reserved rights have been asked <br /> <br /> <br />than answered. Thus, queries abound relating to, among other <br /> <br /> <br />things, priority dates, rights of allotees, lease and sale of <br /> <br /> <br />rights, jurisdiction for purposes of adjudication and adminis- <br /> <br /> <br />tration, scope and purpose of the rights, as well as their <br /> <br /> <br />termination. Because the Winters doctrine has been judicially <br /> <br /> <br />created and defined, answers to these questions come only <br /> <br />sporadically (when a case presenting them arises) ana then <br /> <br /> <br />often in less than definitive fashion. <br /> <br />In comparison to the attributes of appropriative water <br />rights, with which the Indian reserved rights must eventually <br />be integrated, the following is known. The basis of Winters <br />
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