Abstract
The issue of Indian water rights has received very thorough and scholarly attention over the past two decades, and it would be presumptuous to think that one could, at this late date, provide some heretofore undiscovered legal insight into the issue. A more realistic and beneficial goal would be to achieve a better understanding of the relative positions of the major stakeholders in this controversy. It is with that objective in mind that the state perspective is presented.
I. Western Water Law
II. The Winters Doctrine—Its Origin
III. The Aboriginal Right Theory
IV. The Scope of Indian Water Rights
V. Other Unanswered Questions
VI. Source of Supply
VII. The Necessity for State Adjudication of Indian Water Rights
Recommended Citation
Jack D. Palma II,
Indian Water Rights: A State Perspective after Akin,
57 Neb. L. Rev. 295
(1978)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol57/iss2/4