Research Catalog

Title

Indian water in the new West / Thomas R. McGuire, William B. Lord, Mary G. Wallace, editors.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1993.

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Additional Authors

• Lord, William B.
• McGuire, Thomas R.
• Wallace, Mary G., 1959-

Description

vii, 241 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• Although the rights of Indian reservations to water were specified by the Supreme Court as early as 1908, the settlement of Native American claims has become a crucial matter in recent years as economic and demographic growth in the West places extreme demands on this limited resource.
• Because the number of cases settled to date is but a small fraction of those pending, this volume offers an invaluable perspective on an active issue and points to the need for negotiation rather than litigation. It complements the existing literature on water law with a divergence of outlooks on an issue of vast complexity.
• This collection of essays on Indian water rights seeks to assess these ongoing processes of conflict and accommodation among competing claimants. It brings together the views of engineers, lawyers, ecologists, economists, professional mediators, federal officials, an anthropologist, and a Native American tribal leader - all either students of these processes or protagonists in them - to discuss how the legitimate claims of both Indians and non-Indians to scarce water in the West are being settled.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc. > West (U.S.)
• Indians of North America > West (U.S.) > Claims > Congresses
• Indians of North America > West (U.S.) > Claims
• Indians of North America > West (U.S.) > Water rights > Congresses
• Water rights > West (U.S.)
• Water-supply > West (U.S.)
• Water-supply > West (U.S.) > Congresses

Genre/Form

Claims

Note

• Papers from a conference held in Missoula, Montana in June 1989.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Indian water rights conflicts in perspective / David H. Getches -- Conflicting federal roles in Indian water claims negotiations / Benjamin Simon and Harvey Doerksen -- Solutions or symbols? / Austin Nunez and Mary G. Wallace -- A federal perspective / Joseph R. Membrino -- Federalism and self-determination / Peter W. Sly -- Non-Indian water users' goals / John B. Weldon, Jr. -- Negotiating water settlements / Daniel McCool -- The 1985 Fort Peck-Montana Compact / Mary McNally -- The Salt River Pima-Maricopa settlement / Norman H. Starler and Kenneth G. Maxey -- Parties and permanence / John A. Folk-Williams -- Cheap water in Indian country / Robert A. Young and Roger Mann -- The impact of water control on Navajo irrigation practices / John W. Leeper -- Water transfers, paper rights, and the Tuckee-Carson settlement / David Yardas -- The big horns of a dilemma / Teno Roncalio -- Dealing with the federal sovereign / Michael J. Clinton.

ISBN

0816513929 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^93015609^

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Harvard Library