Indian Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Doctrine in Its Social and Legal Context (LEGAL HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA) - Hardcover

Shurts, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806132108 ISBN 13: 9780806132105

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000

Synopsis

In 1934, Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier began a series of “congresses” with American Indians to discuss his proposed federal bill for granting self-government to tribal reservations. For the first time, the reservation Indian was asked for input in the structuring of American Indian relations with federal and state government and law. In The Indian Reorganization Act, Vine Deloria, Jr., has compiled the actual historical records of those congresses.Deloria makes available important documents of the premier years of reform in federal Indian policy as well as the bill itself. A version of Collier’s act eventually passed Congress, but in a less far-reaching form. Nevertheless, a new concept of self-government had emerged, one that now defines the federal government’s approach to American Indian policy and that has changed forever the way American Indians define themselves.

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Review

"By placing the doctrine in its historical, social and political context, the author helps us understand the importance of the Winters doctrine in Indian law."

About the Author

John Shurts is the General Counsel of the Northwest Power Planning Council and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806132108
• ISBN 13: 9780806132105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352