The Council on Economic Priorities charged the BIA with violating its "moral obligations of highest responsibility and trust," because it approved coal leases with low royalty rates on the basis of weak environmental research. This article implies that tribes are more likely to receive equitable leases by negotiating directly with…

Explaining the basis of Indian water rights, including the Winters doctrine, this article includes a report on President Carter's recently proposed water policy, a summary of the Comptroller General's report on reserved water rights in response to the President's proposal, and a synopsis of a water quantification bill to be introduced in the 96th…

It was the unequivocal intent on the part of both Indians and whites at the treaty-signing that the reservations were to be residential bases from which the Indians were to continue to utilize the total environment, including specifically all of their fishing locations, in order to maintain themselves. (Author)