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- Title
INDIAN WATER RIGHTS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE: NAVAJO EXPERIENCE IN THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN.
- Authors
PRICE, MONROE E.; WEATHERFORD, GARY D.
- Abstract
The article discusses the dichotomy between the theory and practice of American Indian water rights based on an experience of a Navajo tribe in the Colorado River Basin. It describes the special nature of reservation water rights by saying that it does not include the right to invest capital in achieving the economic benefits of the entitlement and limits the use of water to the extent that it defeats the original purposes of the reservation. It narrates how the construction of Colorado's Glen Canyon dam and Lake Powell which required the substantial use of water and the procurement of water rights for the Navajo Generating Station in Arizona showed the difficulty of determining the extent to which the Navajo Reservation would share in the benefits of the river and its tributaries.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WATER rights; LEGAL status of Native Americans; NAVAJO (North American people); RIVERS; DAMS
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1976, Vol 40, Issue 1, p97
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1191333