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- Title
WATER RIGHTS IN THE COAL FIELDS OF THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER BASIN.
- Authors
VEEDER, WILLIAM H.
- Abstract
The article discusses the conflicting federal and state legislation regarding water rights affecting the Indian tribes who live around the coal fields of Yellowstone River Basin in Montana and Wyoming. It says that the problem arises from the recovery of strippable coal deposits around the Basin by major energy companies with whom the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has entered into contracts for the sale of water rights. It traces the development of federal and western water laws that guarantee Indian water rights to parts of the coal fields by virtue of their being the first to make use of available water supply under the doctrine of prior appropriation. It questions federal power's ability to protect Indian rights in implementing a national energy program.
- Subjects
YELLOWSTONE River; MONTANA; WYOMING; UNITED States; WATER rights; LEGAL status of Native Americans; COALFIELDS; UNITED States. Bureau of Reclamation
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1976, Vol 40, Issue 1, p77
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1191332