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Chippewa-Cree Tribe Of The Rocky Boy Reservation Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement And Water Supply Enhancement Act Of 1999, United States 106th Congress Dec 1999

Chippewa-Cree Tribe Of The Rocky Boy Reservation Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement And Water Supply Enhancement Act Of 1999, United States 106th Congress

Native American Water Rights Settlement Project

Federal legislation: Chippewa-Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy Reservation Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement and Water Supply Enhancement Act of 1999 (PL 106–163, 113 Stat. 1778) Act approves and ratifies the Water Rights Compact entered into on April 14, 1997, by the Tribe and MT, as modified by this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to execute and implement the Compact. Requires the US, the Tribe, or MT to petition the MT Water Court to enter and approve the proposed decree. Provides an expiration date; a tribal water code. Satisfies any entitlement to Federal Indian reserved water of any …


Sanctioning A Tyranny: The Diminishment Of Ex Parte Young, Expansion Of Hans Immunity, And Denial Of Indian Rights In Coeur D'Alene Tribe, John P. Lavelle Oct 1999

Sanctioning A Tyranny: The Diminishment Of Ex Parte Young, Expansion Of Hans Immunity, And Denial Of Indian Rights In Coeur D'Alene Tribe, John P. Lavelle

Faculty Scholarship

This Article analyzes a recent decision of the Supreme Court that illustrates the enormous destructive power of the Rehnquist Court's peculiar brand of anti-tribal activism, Idaho v. Coeur d'Alene Tribe. Coeur d'Alene Tribe is likely to heighten the urgency with which Eleventh Amendment scholars have called for an overruling of Hans to ameliorate the damage that Hans and its progeny already have done to the regime of federally protected rights under the Constitution, laws and treaties of the United States-a regime at the core of the Framers' vision of paramount federal law and essential to securing true liberty for all …


Docket As Of July 14, 1999--Pueblo Of Sandia V. Babbitt, Et Al, United States District Court District Of Columbia Jul 1999

Docket As Of July 14, 1999--Pueblo Of Sandia V. Babbitt, Et Al, United States District Court District Of Columbia

Sandia Pueblo Mountain Claim

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Crow Tribe, Montana & Us Compact Of 1999, Montana Jun 1999

Crow Tribe, Montana & Us Compact Of 1999, Montana

Native American Water Rights Settlement Project

Settlement & State Legislation: Water Rights Compact Entered into by the State of Montana, the Crow Tribe and the USA (Jun. 22, 1999). (Mont. Code Ann. Sec. 85-20-901) There is no separate Settlement Agreememt. The State Legislation ratifies settlement of Crow water rights. Includes 500,000 a/f/y from Bighorn River, priority of May 7, 1868; 300,000 a/f/y from Bighorn Lake storage but limited to half that amount during low periods. A stream and lake-level management plan to be developed for the Bighorn River. Tribe has surface, GW and storage rights within the Little Bighorn River, Pryor Creek, and Rosebud Creek (to …


The General Allotment Act "Eligibility" Hoax: Distortions Of Law, Policy, And History In Derogation Of Indian Tribes, John P. Lavelle Apr 1999

The General Allotment Act "Eligibility" Hoax: Distortions Of Law, Policy, And History In Derogation Of Indian Tribes, John P. Lavelle

Faculty Scholarship

A review of the essay, "Federal Indian Identification Policy: A Usurption of Indigenous Sovereignty in Native North America," in the collection of essays, The State of Native America, by M. Annette Jaimes.


San Carlos Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Agreement Of 1999, San Carlos Apache Tribe Et Al Mar 1999

San Carlos Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Agreement Of 1999, San Carlos Apache Tribe Et Al

Native American Water Rights Settlement Project

Settlement Agreement: San Carlos Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Agreement (Mar. 30, 1999) Parties: San Carlos Apache Tribe, US, AZ, Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement & Power District, Salt River Valley Water Users Assn., Roosevelt Water Conservation District, Buckeye Irrigation District, Buckeye Water Conservation and Drainage District, Tempe, Chandler, Mesa, Glendale, Scottsdale, Gilbert and Central AZ Water Conservation District. This Settlement Agreement resolves the water rights as between these parties in the Gila Water Rights Adjudication of AZ. Other claims remain to be resolved. Neighboring non-Indian communities will relinquish to approximately 58,735 a/f of surface water to the Tribe, provide …


[On The] Road Back In: Community Lawyering In Indigenous Communities, Christine Zuni Cruz Jan 1999

[On The] Road Back In: Community Lawyering In Indigenous Communities, Christine Zuni Cruz

Faculty Scholarship

The idea of professional success,especially in the elite legal profession, as being closely linked to community or having corresponding value to the community has directly affected my view of individual lawyering. Excerpts reprinted in: Social Justice: Professionals, Communities and Law, 11 (Mahoney, Calmore, Wildman, eds., 2003); Lawyers Ethics and The Pursuit of Social Justice and Ethics 201 (Susan D. Carle, ed., 2005); Clinical Anthology, Readings for Live-Client Clinics, (2d Ed., A.J. Hurder, et al., eds., 2011).