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Oregon tribe wins ruling on water rights but Klamath Basin irrigators challenge allocation
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
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By Alex Schwartz, Herald and News
The Klamath County Circuit Court upheld a majority of decisions concerning the Oregon water rights of the Klamath Tribes last week, but basin irrigators say there could be changes in how those rights are enforced down the road.
Using treaty language wherein the U.S. government promised adequate resources for hunting and fishing on the former Klamath Indian Reservation, the tribes had successfully proved the existence of their time immemorial water rights in federal court in the 1970s and 1980s. But that litigation required their participation in the Klamath Basin Adjudication in order to quantify those rights.
Mark Brnovich at KJZZ in August 2019.
Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Brnovich v. the Democratic National Committee. The Arizona case is challenging two of Arizona’s election laws. One of those bans dropping off an early ballot for someone outside your immediate family, and the other requires ballots to be discarded if the person votes from the wrong precinct.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that both policies were discriminatory toward Native American, Latino and Black voters.
But the case has broader implications than the two laws in question.
Voting rights activists are worried that the more conservative Supreme Court could use the cases to strike down or nullify an important portion of the U.S. Voting Rights Act, a seminal civil rights era law.
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The United Tribes of Bristol Bay, Bristol Bay Native Association and Bristol Bay Econimic Devlopment Corporation published “The Call” in December, after the Army Corps of Engineers denied Northern Dynasty’s permit application for the proposed Pebble Mine. UTBB is a Tribal consortium that represents 15 Tribes in the region. The Bristol Bay Native Association and the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation support UTBB’s proposal.
At a virtual town hall earlier this month, UTBB presented a road map for the two-part plan. Here’s deputy director Lindsay Layland.
“Tribes in the region and BB leadership have came together once again, to revive their previous request for 404c action, and we put a proposal forward for both administrative and legislative action for Bristol Bay,” Layland said.
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