• • 'Winters Doctrine' on water rights still haunts the American West (Indian Country Today) 4/28/08

• • U.S. spends $3.9 billion on water for others (The Gallup Independent) 4/26/08

• • Riverside County posts information to explain Anza-area water rights lawsuit (The Press-Enterprise) 4/23/08

• • Nation watching court case in Hobart (Green Bay Press-Gazette) 4/17/08

• • Tribes' water claims wind through process (The Billings Gazette) 4/17/08

• • EPA approves Lac du Flambeau tribe's application (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) 4/14/08

• • Land deal could open Alaska wildlife refuge to oil (The US Daily) 3/25/08

• • Tribe says water legislation would violate its fishing rights (Michigan Live) 3/25/08

• • Yukon Flats, climate woes highlight closing day of Tanana Chiefs Conference (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner) 3/14/08

• • Carcieri '65 challenges Narragansett sovereignty (The Brown Daily Herald) 3/13/08

• • Land fight gives students tribal window (The Denver Post) 3/12/08

• • Interior guidance on land into trust meets with derision (Indian Country Today) 3/7/08

• • Indian tribes exercising water rights (USA TODAY) 2/27/08

• • Supreme Court to hear R.I. tribal land case (Providence Business News) 2/26/08

• • Indian tribes exercising water rights (USA TODAY) 2/25/08

• • Land swap debate draws hundreds (Daily News-Miner) 2/22/08

• • Court denies ID city's bid for water right on tribal land (Idaho Statesman) 2/19/08

• • Pueblo will regain lands (Star-Tribune) 2/15/08

• • Pressure mounting in water rights negotiations (Leader & Advertiser) 2/14/08

• • $25 million raised to begin ambitious Penobscot River Restoration Project (Indian Country Today) 2/11/08

• • Fish are key to deal on Klamath (The Sacramento Bee) 2/10/08

• • Iraq – yes; Natives – no (The Gallup Independent) 2/6/08

• • Spokane tribe OKs drawdown (Tri-City Herald) 2/6/08

• • Bush budget a drought for water projects (Rapid City Journal) 2/5/08

• • A deal on Klamath's dams (San Francisco Chronicle) 1/21/08

• • Stakes high in Blackfeet water pact (Great Falls Tribune) 1/20/08

• • Report confirms Indians' land claim (Express-News) 1/19/08

• • Blackfeet, state reach water deal (Billings Gazette) 1/17/08

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