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Prairie Band Potawatomi, Iowa Tribe urge formal tribal representation and protection of tribal water rights
Summary
The chairman of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation told the Kansas Water Task Force that tribal water rights predate the state and that the tribe seeks formal representation in state water planning.
The chairman of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation told the Kansas Water Task Force that tribal water rights predate the state and that the tribe has been seeking formal representation in state water planning.
"For Native Americans, water is central to us," the chairman said, noting decades of disruption to water quality and access on reservation lands. He said the nation occupies a 30-by-30-mile reservation established in 1846 and that recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions underscore that reservations remain in effect unless Congress disestablishes them.
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