Indian Law

LRPA provides representation on issues involving Indian jurisdiction and the allocation of resources among and between Indian and Pueblo lands from the nature and scope of federal legislation creating federal projects on Indian land to water rights claims and entitlements. Each Indian or Pueblo sovereign brings with it a long history of water use as well as a water philosophy. The legal issues surrounding historic, non-prior appropriation of water rights is fully explored in a book written by Professor DuMars, Marilyn O’Leary and the late Albert E. Utton titled: Pueblo Indian Water Rights, Struggle For a Precious Resource (Univ. of Ariz. Press) (1984).