Native waters
Subtitle: contemporary Indian water settlements and the second treaty era
By: Daniel McCool.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc; Water rights -- West (U.S.); Indians of North America -- Claims
Description: "Since the beginning of the reservation era, the bitter conflict between Indians and non-Indians over water rights was largely confined to the courtroom. But in the 1980s the federal government began to emphasize negotiated settlements over lawsuits, and the settlements are changing water rights in fundamental ways - not only for tribes but also for non-Indian communities that share scarce water resources with Indians.".

"In Native Waters, Daniel McCool describes the dramatic impact these settlements are having both on Indian country and on the American West as a whole. Viewing the settlements as a second treaty era, he considers whether they will guarantee the water future of reservations - or, like treaties of old, will require tribes to surrender vast resources in order to retain a small part of their traditional homelands.

As one tribal official observed, "It's like your neighbors have been stealing your horses for many years, and now we have to sit down and decide how many of those horses they get to keep.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Rivers of ink; title: A vision of good faith; title: Decades and dollars; title: Eternity on the block; title: The cup of living water; title: In the shadow of the eagle; title: Last refuge; title: Another kind of green; title: "Come on, big village, be quick".