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Oklahoma City – Fourteen Oklahoma tribes whose compacts with the state government will lapse on December 31 have received offers to extend the accords for one year.
The Supreme Court indicated that the 1868 treaty between the Navajo Nation and the federal government contained no language saying that the government was responsible for helping the Navajo Nation secure water rights.
The court indicated that the treaty contained no language saying that the government was responsible for helping secure water rights.
The Navajo Nation continues its fight for water after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the United States has no treaty obligation to identify and account for the Navajo Nation’s water rights in the Colorado River.
The U.S. government’s Indian boarding school system is the focus of legislation that’s been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate.