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Brewer. Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (1908), was a United States Supreme Court case clarifying water rights of American Indian reservations. [1] This doctrine was meant to clearly define the water rights of indigenous people in cases where the rights were not clear. [2] The case was first argued on October 24, 1907, and a decision was ...
1. A Native American allotee is entitled to the share of the reservation's water that is needed to irrigate their land. 2. When a Native American sells their allotment to a non-Native American, the purchaser acquires the allotment's reserved water rights. 3. The priority date of those rights remains the date when the reservation was created. 4.
The origin of water law in California dates back to the 1848 Gold Rush and the historical event's direct effect on water law development in the region. [1] Despite California attaining statehood in 1850, [2] water law in the region had already been rapidly developing since January 1848 (i.e. The start of the Gold Rush [3]) due to the resource's ...
The Environmental Protection Agency has begun an investigation into whether California’s top water agency has discriminated against Native tribes and people of color, carrying out a civil rights ...
List of Jim Crow law examples by state. A Black American drinks from a segregated water cooler in 1939 at a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City. This is a list of examples of Jim Crow laws, which were state, territorial, and local laws in the United States enacted between 1877 and 1965. Jim Crow laws existed throughout the United States and ...
California is the only state with a groundwater law that includes provisions intended to protect groundwater-dependent ecosystems. But the law, adopted in 2014, gives considerable leeway to local ...
The history of slavery in California began with the enslavement of Indigenous Californians under Spanish colonial rule. The arrival of the Spanish colonists introduced chattel slavery and involuntary servitude to the area. Over 90,000 Indigenous peoples were forced to stay at the Spanish missions in California between 1770 and 1834, being kept ...
A representation of a Pomo dancer, painting by Grace Hudson. Indigenous peoples of California, commonly known as Indigenous Californians or Native Californians, are a diverse group of nations and peoples that are indigenous to the geographic area within the current boundaries of California before and after European colonization.