Review of American Indian Water Rights and the Limits of Law

Authors

John R. Wunder, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

1992

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 12:3 (Summer 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Do Indians have a right to water on their reservations? An answer to such a question seems obvious. Water is a part of land, and if you have sovereignty or ownership over the land, even limited sovereignty, rights to the water should follow.