2007 Land and Water News Stories
• • Mni Wiconi gets $28 million for ?08 construction (Rapid City Journal) 12/20/07
• • WA gov wants $5.9 million yearly for tribal water help (Associated Press) 12/17/07
• • New water agreement reached for Lake Roosevelt (Tri-City Herald) 12/18/07
• • Tribe, township agree on water deal (The Morning Sun) 12/13/07
• • Appeals court upholds state ruling on Truckee water transfers (Nevada Appeal) 12/11/07
• • Tribal chairman: Three Affiliated Tribes still waiting for transfer of lands (The Minot Daily News) 11/30/07
• • State high court rejects Tribe's challenge to water settlement (Associated Press) 11/30/07
• • Engineer: Water-rights settlements crucial (The Santa Fe New Mexican) 11/27/07
• • Water systems: pay now or pay more (Rapid City Journal) 11/13/07
• • Negotiations continue for water rights (Great Falls Tribune) 11/13/07
• • Congress turns back Bush?s veto in a test of power (The New York Times) 11/9/07
• • On Water Bill, House votes to override Bush veto for first time (The Washington Post) 11/7/07
• • Mni Wiconi needs more time (Rapid City Journal) 11/2/07
• • Water shortage threatening to cut off Seminoles, worsen strain on South Florida (South Florida Sun-Central) 10/25/07
• • Blackfeet, state revise water rights compact (Great Falls Tribune) 10/25/07
• • City joins lawsuit (The Morning Sun) 10/1/07
• • Nation prepares for court decision (Syracuse Online) 9/24/07
• • Businessman: Return piece of shoreline to Onondagas (The Post-Standard) 9/19/07
• • Congress to hear testimony regarding Trinity River issues (The Eureka Reporter) 9/14/07
• • Navajo Nation endures water crisis (The Arizona Republic) 8/26/07
• • State orders district to sever Mendocino tribe's water supply (The Mercury News) 8/21/07
• • All Americans should support the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007 (The Albuquerque Tribune) 8/14/07
• • No action taken on Cayugas' proposal (The Post-Standard) 8/7/07
• • State parks and tribe approve Hood Canal land swap (The Seattle Times) 8/7/07
• • House approves bill that would give Pechanga tribe 1,178 acres (The Press-Enterprise) 7/31/07
• • Tribe must build houses on land (The Providence Journal) 7/27/07
• • Tribes, leaders map out plans (The Citizen) 7/23/07
• • Appeals court backs tribe in land-into-trust dispute (Indianz.com) 7/23/07
• • Tribe to decide if leader violated constitution (Argus Leader) 7/19/07
• • Pueblo wants land put in trust (The Albuquerque Journal) 7/16/07
• • Cayuga Nation sets deadline for settlement approval (The Citizen) 7/2/07
• • Land swap would resolve dispute (Anchorage Daily News) 7/2/07
• • N.M. senators proposing bill to settle Navajo water dispute (The Arizona Daily Star) 6/29/07
• • Water claims to be settled? Hearing set for Navajo-Gallup water agreement, path for pipeline (Gallup Independent) 6/26/07
• • Pueblos to get 7,058 acres in Santa Fe National Forest land transfer deal (The New Mexican) 6/26/07
• • Cayugas purchasing land in Seneca County (The Citizen) 6/22/07
• • Wisconsin tribe opposes land trust move (The Post-Standard) 6/21/07
• • Rocky Boy's residents can use water if it's boiled (The Great Falls Tribune) 6/15/07
• • Tribe closing on Middleboro site, but not necessarily for casino (Cape Cod Times) 6/8/07
• • Rocky Boy's water woes will linger until June 29 (The Great Falls Tribune) 6/7/07
• • State seeks appeal in Oneida land claim (The Post-Standard) 6/7/07
• • Seneca County leaders voice doubts on deal (The Citizen) 6/7/07
• • Judge rejects land trust suit: Groups opposed to Oneidas' request filed lawsuit too early, ruling says (The Post-Standard) 6/6/07
• • Mashantuckets to supply route to water customers (Norwich Bulletin) 6/6/07
• • Time has come to shake hands on land dispute [Cayuga Indian Nation] (The Ithaca Journal) 6/5/07
• • Nez Perce homeland will always be sacred (Missoulian.com) 6/3/07
• • Editorial: Nation, neighbors must heal [Oneida Indian Nation] (UticaOD.com) 5/29/07
• • Judge says Oneida Indians deserve a chance
for redress (The
New York Times) 5/22/07
• • End of Fort Lewis Golf Course? Nisqually Tribe wants to obtain, perhaps develop ancestral lands (The News Tribune) 5/17/07
• • County considers letting tribe run Fall City Park (The Seattle Times) 5/16/07
• • Tribe [Shinnecock Indian Nation] states case for land (Newsday.com) 5/10/07
• • Wampanoag deal for more land (Cape Cod Times) 5/3/07
• • California tribes seek removal of Klamath dams (Indianz.com) 5/2/07
• • Idaho, Nez Perce tribe sign water deal (Central Florida News) 5/1/07
• • Lawmakers ok water-rights funding (Great Falls Tribune) 4/27/07
• • Reid's bill could resolve water rights dispute (RJG.com) 4/27/07
• • Reclaiming their land (Asheville Citizen Times) 4/24/07
• • Tribe claims it's right where it wants to be with land claims (The Independent) 4/17/07
• • First Nation introduces fishery rules - Council takes ‘progressive stance' to protect lake (North Bay Nugget) 4/13/07
• • Blackfeet water worries: Downstream users decry compact (Great Falls Tribune) 4/13/07
• • Tribe's reservoir lawsuit settled (Daily Press) 4/11/07
• • Town, Tribe sign historic land use pact (Mvgazette.com) 4/2/07
• • Tribes' sacred land could be new park (Oregonian) 3/13/07
• • Little Shell tribe gets yes vote for townsite (Great Falls Tribune) 3/8/07
• • Tribes might be open to changes in land transfer method (Bismarck Tribune) 3/7/07
• • Land-into-trust requests fall into BIA's 'black hole' (Indianz.com) 2/21/07
• • Fight over blood line, deer kill is on docket(Deseret News) 2/12/07
• • Timeout called in Klamath fight (Oregonian) 02/07/07
• • Quechan propose park (Yuma Sun) 01/23/07
• • Fletcher: The land-claims time bomb (Indian Country Today) 1/19/07
• • Appeals court to hear land-into-trust case (Indianz.com) 1/8/07
• • Paugussetts appeal land claims ruling (New Haven Register) 1/5/07
• • Issa introduces nine bills (North County Times) 1/4/07
• • Tribal land dispute nears end (Oklahoman) 01/02/07
• • Blackfeet claim entitlement to 'substantial allocation' of water (AP) 01/01/07
