Colorado River Squatter Problems: Hearings Before the United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Eighty-Sixth Congress, First Session, on Nov. 7, 1959Examines Interior Dept land use policies and the problem of unauthorized tenancy and water use practices along the lower Colorado River. Nov. 7 hearing was held in Phoenix, Ariz. |
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acre-feet acres action agencies agreement agricultural All-American Canal Ariz Arizona Game Protective Associated Farmers attorney believe Blythe boating Bureau of Reclamation Calif California CHENOWETH CHESNEY Cibola Valley claims Colorado River Basin Colorado River Indian Congress County Recreation District crops Dam County Recreation Davis Dam Department EASTERDAY ERICKSON eviction facilities farming Federal Government Federal lands feel fish and wildlife Game Protective Association Government land HARLESS hearing Hoover Dam illegal Imperial Irrigation District Insular Affairs interest Interior and Insular J. F. POWER laws lease Lower Colorado River Madam Chairman ment occupancy ownership Parker Dam County Parker Dam Unit PFOST Phoenix phreatophytes present Prost public lands purposes Quechan recreation area reservation land salt cedar San Bernardino County Seaton Secretary situation solution squatter problem squatters statement STEVENS subcommittee Thank tion Tom Rush trespass tribe U.S. Government UDALL unauthorized unlawful Yuma Indians
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Page 109 - That no purchase, grant, lease, or other conveyance of lands, or of any title or claim thereto, from any Indian nation or tribe of Indians, shall be of any validity in law or equity, unless the same be made by treaty or convention entered into pursuant to the constitution.
Page 78 - ... having charge or control of the inclosure; and any suit brought under the provisions of this section shall have precedence for hearing and trial over other cases on the civil docket of the court, and shall be tried and determined at the earliest practicable day. In any case if the inclosure shall be found to be unlawful, the court shall make the proper order, judgment or decree for the destruction of the inclosure in a summary way, unless the inclosure shall be removed by the defendant within...
Page 78 - That it shall be the duty of the district attorney of the United States for the proper district, on affidavit filed with him by any citizen of the United States that section...
Page 57 - Compact are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River System, the use of which was apportioned in perpetuity to the Upper Basin by the Colorado River Compact; to establish the obligations of each State of the Upper Division with respect to the deliveries of water required to be made at Lee Ferry by the Colorado River Compact...
Page 109 - Senecas, even for the purpose of passing through them, without their consent, their right-of-way became the subject of compact. Although the Indian title continues only during their possession, yet that possession has been always held sacred, and can never be disturbed but by their con•sent. They do not hold under the States, nor under the United States ; their title is original, sovereign, and exclusive.
Page 147 - That for the consideration hereinafter mentioned the Crow tribe of Indians do hereby surrender and relinquish to the United States all their right, title, and interest in and to all that part of the Crow Reservation situate in the Territory of Montana and described as follows, namely...
Page 50 - Report on Water Supply of the Lower Colorado River Basin, Project Planning Report, USBR, November 1952.
Page 116 - I, Harold L. Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority granted me by the act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984), as amended do hereby approve the attached constitution and bylaws of the Indians of the Swinomish Reservation.
Page 20 - Of course, what the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Director of the National Park Service recommended was a program to take care of their situation.
Page 109 - So long as a tribe exists and remains in possession of its lands, its title and possession are sovereign and exclusive, and there exists no authority to enter upon their lands, for any purpose whatever, without their consent.