The three bills before us today cover two issues of great importance to Indian Country, economic development and tribal water rights settlements.
These three bills give Congress a chance to do the right thing by those tribal communities to whom we owe legal, financi...
These settlement funds, which come on line in 2020, will go a long way towards paying for the $1.6 billion backlog to co...
Ultimately, the bill would secure the tribe's current and future access to water, the life blood of the community.
The repeal of this law, which does not apply to State lands, would remove needless barriers to economic development in I...
I find it very difficult, knowing the current funding constraints we face in Congress, to fund these Indian water rights...
water is for fighting
The Hualapai settlement will also end up somewhere in that range.
water is life
The CSKT settlement from the last Congress will possibly cost more than $2 billion.
The importance of these settlements to providing certainty to both Indian and non-Indian communities cannot be overstate...