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Agenda: Sustainable Use Of The West's Water, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center Jun 1995

Agenda: Sustainable Use Of The West's Water, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Sustainable Use of the West's Water (Summer Conference, June 12-14)

Conference organizers and/or faculty included University of Colorado School of Law professors David H. Getches, Lawrence J. MacDonnell, Teresa A. Rice, Elizabeth A. Rieke and Charles F. Wilkinson.

Sustainable development is on the policy agenda for the '90s. What does sustainability mean? Is it a realistic concept? Are water rights compatible with sustainable use? The Center's 16th annual summer conference will explore the meaning of sustainability in the context of the West's demands, development, and natural values. Presentations by leading experts will address the broad concept of sustainable development, with a particular look at Arizona's experience. The focus will be …


Private Dollars On The Reservation: Will Recent Native American Economic Development Amount To Cultural Assimilation?, Karin M. Mika, Bonnie Hurst Jan 1995

Private Dollars On The Reservation: Will Recent Native American Economic Development Amount To Cultural Assimilation?, Karin M. Mika, Bonnie Hurst

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This article exams commercial enterprises and its gaining popularity among Native American tribes. The cooperative economic ventures that are not considered indigenous to Native American culture may yield the unintended yet inevitable result of assimilating Native Americans into mainstream American society. In an ironic twist, the resulting assimilation has, in many respects, fulfilled the misguided aspirations of the earliest European colonists.