The Indian water
rights study, tied to unresolved allotted Indian land claims were a Trojan
horse wheeled into Indian affairs by President Reagan to extinguish Indian land
claims and reduce Indian water rights across the nation for the benefit of
States and corporations; who are the defendants in the pre-1966 Indian Money
Damage claims.
Chairman Old Person stated, “It is
un-American, un-constitutional, and anti-human for the bureaucracy to be
permitted to run roughshod over my tribe and other western Indian tribes. Yet,
it is manifest here that that is the practice and procedure now on-going in the
Justice Department, using the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a front.”
In November of 1982 the Covelo Indian Community sued the
Secretary of the Interior James Watt in the United States District Court For The
District Of Columbia in Civil Action No. 82-2725, seeking declaratory and
injunctive relief to secure rights and duties they claim are owed to them, and
all others similarly situated, by the defendant federal officials. -The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.165
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