Command of the Waters
Iron Triangles, Federal Water Development, and Indian Water
1st Edition
Published on 27. September 2022
352 pages
978-0-8165-5000-5 (ISBN)
Description
Much has been written about legal questions surrounding Indian water rights, this book now places them in the political framework that also includes water development. McCool analyzes the two conflicting doctrines relating to water use-one based on federal case law governing the rights of Indians on reservations, the other sanctioned by legislation and applied to non-Indians-based on the "e,iron triangles"e, of bureaucrats, legislators, and interest groups that dominate policy issues. He examines the way federal and BIA water development programs have reacted to conflict, competition, and opportunity from the turn of the century to the 1980s and updates the situation in an introduction written for this edition.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperbound Edition
- On a Plateau All By Itself: An Introduction to the Paperbound Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One. Water, Indians, and Iron Triangles
- Introduction
- Iron Triangles: Sources of Political Power
- Iron Triangles, Water Policy, and Change
- Conclusion
- Chapter Two. Federal Water Development at the Turn of the Century
- Introduction
- The Federal-State Relationship
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Eastern Vote
- Interest Group Support
- Turn-of-the-Century Pork Barrel
- Conclusion
- Chapter Three. The Winters Decision and Its Progeny
- Introduction
- The Role of the Justice Department
- The Court's Response
- The Congressional Response
- Conclusion
- Chapter Four. Non-Indian Water Development: The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Introduction
- The Bureau of Reclamation
- Three Problems
- Congress and Reclamation
- The Bureau as Administrative Agency
- Reclamation Interest Groups
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Congress and the Corps
- The Corps as Administrative Agency
- Corps Interest Groups
- The General Policy Environment
- Distributive Policy
- The Norm of Reciprocity
- Autonomy
- Implementability
- Conclusion
- Chapter Five. The BIA Water Development Program
- Introduction
- The BIA's Official Water Rights Policy
- The BIA and the Winters Doctrine
- The BIA and the Prior Appropriation Doctrine
- A New Approach to Reserved Rights
- The Indian Iron Triangle
- Congress
- Interest Groups
- The BIA as Administrative Agency
- The General Policy Environment
- Postscript: Fort Belknap
- Conclusion
- Chapter Six. Conflict Among Programs and Priorities
- Introduction
- Indians, the BIA, and the Bureau of Reclamation
- Indians, the BIA, and the Army Corps of Engineers
- Indians, the Departments of Interior and Justice, and Conflict of Interest
- Federal-State Conflict
- Conclusion
- Chapter Seven. Contemporary Federal Water Development: The Battle Over Water Projects
- Introduction
- Attempted Reforms in the Water Policy Decision-Making Process
- Changes in Project Criteria
- Bureaucratic Reorganization
- Budgetary Reform
- Conflice over Appropriations and Authorization Bills
- A Contemporary Water Policy Iron Triangle?
- Conclusion
- Chapter Eight. The Politics of Contemporary Indian Water Rights
- Introduction
- Indian Water Rights and the Carter Administration
- Indian Water Rights and the Reagan Administration
- All-Inclusive Settlement Bills
- Settlement Bills for Individual Tribes
- Current Policies and Strategies
- An Indian Iron Triangle?
- Conclusion
- Chapter Nine. Conclusion
- Introduction
- The Indian Iron Triangle
- The Non-Indian Water Development Iron Triangle
- The Changing Concept of Iron Triangles
- Water Politics, Water Rights, and the Future
- Epilogue: Fort Belknap
- Appendix: Maps of the Continental United States Showing Federal Indian Reservations and Major Water Development Projects of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Notes
- References
- Index
