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Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation Water Resources Department water rights settlement records, 1832-2002
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation. Water Resources Department
- Title
- Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation Water Resources Department water rights settlement records
- Dates
- 1832-2002 (inclusive)18322002
- Quantity
- 53.0 linear feet
- Collection Number
- Mss 746
- Summary
- Files used by the Chippewa Cree Tribe, and in particular the Tribal Water Resources Department, during their negotiations with the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission and the Federal Negotiating Team for the Rocky Boy's Reservation to settle the Tribe's water rights claims. The records include information about the history of the area that is now Rocky Boy's Reservation in north central Montana, history of water system development in the region, and legal files related to Rocky Boy's case for water rights.
- Repository
-
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library
University of Montana
32 Campus Dr. #9936
59812-9936
Missoula, MT
Telephone: 406-243-2053
library.archives@umontana.edu - Access Restrictions
-
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and The University of Montana-Missoula.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation in north central Montana was established by Executive Order on September 7, 1916 as a homeland for a band of the Chippewa people led by Stone Man (also known as Rocky Boy) and a band of Cree people lead by Little Bear. Despite including drainages for Big Sandy Creek and Beaver Creek the land was arid and lacked adequate water rights to support the irrigation necessary for self-sufficiency. The Reservation grew in size as the United States purchased additional land for the Chippewa Cree Tribe, but the new land was largely of poor quality; water remained inadequate and water rights were not actively asserted by the United States in its role as trustee.
The Winter's Doctrine (also known as the reserved rights doctrine), articulated by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Winters v. United States in 1908, was created to ensure that Indian lands and other lands reserved by the federal government for particular purposes would have adequate water to fulfill those purposes. However, the amount of the entitlement is uncertain until it is quantified by judicial decision or by a settlement agreement. In 1979 Montana passed Senate Bill 76 which (among other things) established the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission. The Compact Commission is responsible for negotiating on behalf of the state with federal and tribal entities to quantify the federal and tribal reserved water rights. In 1997 the Chippewa Cree Tribe and the State of Montana agreed to a water rights compact between the two governments which quantified the Tribe’s water rights and established a joint Tribe/State water administration system. On December 9, 1999, the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act became Public Law No: 106-163. In 2002, a Montana water court decree approved the water rights of the Chippewa Cree Tribe.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
This collection contains files of documents used by the Chippewa Cree Tribe, and in particular the Tribe's Water Resources Department, during their negotiations with the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission and the Federal Negotiating Team for the Rocky Boy's Reservation to settle the Tribe's water rights claims. The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) represented the Chippewa Cree Tribe and many of these records were originally part of the research and litigation files. Yvonne Knight served as NARF lead counsel. The records include information about the history of the area that is now Rocky Boy's Reservation in north central Montana, the history of water system development in the region, and legal files related to Rocky Boy's case for water rights. The settlement awarded $25 million for on-reservation water development projects, $3 million for a water administration system, $3 million for economic development, 10,000 acre-feet of storage water from a federal reservoir, $15 million toward a drinking water importation project, and $1 million to study future tribal water needs.
The document "Rocky Boy: Water Rights Settlement Index of Materials" was created by the Chippewa Cree Tribe's Water Resources Department. Most of the content of this guide to the Water Rights Settlement archival collection was created directly from that Settlement Index.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
Pdf files of these documents were created by the Chippewa Cree Tribe's Water Resources Department and are available from Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library. Pdf files of a portion of the documents in this collection are available online in the Montana History Portal collection Chippewa Cree Tribe Water Rights Settlement Records.
Restrictions on Use
Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and any other applicable statutes. The University of Montana owns an electronic copy of all the files, along with non-exclusive intellectual property rights to the collection.
Preferred Citation
Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation Water Resources Department Water Rights Settlement Records, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arrangement of this collection reflects the way that the materials were organized and described by the creator. The collection has been divided by the creator into sixteen series.
Series I: Congressional History, 1.0 linear feet
Series II: Historical Documents, 3.0 linear feet
Series III: Land Acquisition, 3.0 linear feet
Series IV: Regional Water System, 1.0 linear feet
Series V: Compact Drafts, 2.0 linear feet
Series VI: Research, 13.0 linear feet
Series VII: Correspondence and Research, Phase 2, 1.0 linear feet
Series VIII: Related Cases, 1.0 linear feet
Series IX: Correspondence, 8.0 linear feet
Series X: Consultants, 6.0 linear feet
Series XI: Attorney Notes and Reports, 6.0 linear feet
Series XII: Legal Proceedings, 2.0 linear feet
Series XIII: Litigation, 1.0 linear feet
Series XIV: Settlement Material, 1.0 linear feet
Series XV: Miscellaneous, 3.0 linear feet
Series XVI: Maps, 1.0 linear feet
Location of Originals
The original files, consisting of 53 boxes of print material, are on temporary loan to Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana and are available for access and research. A portion of the records are photocopies from documents housed at the National Archives. Pdf files of all documents in the collection have been given to the Mansfield Library and are available for access.
Custodial History
The physical and electronic records were in the custody of attorney Daniel Belcourt of Missoula prior to their transfer to the Archives in 2010.
Acquisition Information
The electronic files were gifted to the University of Montana in November of 2009. The physical documents were transferred to the Archives in February of 2010 where they remain on loan.
Processing Note
The physical documents were digitized under the supervision of the Tribal Water Resources Department prior to their transfer to the Archives. The original order of the physical documents has been maintained by the Archives. Box and folder titles, date ranges, and file content notes in this guide are largely transcribed directly from the "Rocky Boy: Water Rights Settlement Index of Materials" document given to the Archives when the boxes were placed on loan.
Bibliography
Cosens, Barbara A. "The 1997 Water Rights Settlement Between the State of Montana and the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy's Reservation: The Role of the Community and of the Trustee." UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 16/2: 255-295.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series I: Congressional History, 1908-1999Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
1 | Phase II. 1998 Correspondence /
Draft Legislation |
June-August, 1998 |
1 | Phase II. 1998 Correspondence /
Draft Legislation |
September-December, 1998 |
1 | Senate Bill No. 337 |
1997 |
1 | Settlement Compact
Working draft of Water Rights Compact (April 1996); Team
Briefing Papers re: Background of Indian Water Rights.
|
1908-1996 |
1 | Publicity |
1979-1999 |
1 | Sample Compact of
Self-Governance |
circa 1998 |
1 | Correspondence, Interoffice
Memoranda
re: appropriation for settlement
|
January 1999 |
1 | Research, HR 795 - 106th
Congress |
1999 |
1 | Consultants - Wright Water
Engineers, Inc. |
April 1997 |
1 | Case Management (Native American
Rights Fund) |
1998 |
1 | Meetings re: S. 438 and HR. 795
in DC
one itinerary for June 29-July 1, 1999
|
1999 |
1 | Meetings re: S. 438 and H.R. 795
in DC |
June 30 and July 1, 1999 |
1 | Hearings on S. 438 and H.R. 795
in DC |
June 30 and July 1, 1999 |
Series II: Historical Documents, 1892-1909Return to Top
Photocopies of documents from a variety of sources including government publications, archival collections at the Montana Historical Society, and a several record groups at National Archives including RG 48, RG 49 (Div K, Military Reservation File, Ft. Assiniboine), RG 75 (Office of Indian Affairs ), RG 77 (Fortifications Map File), RG 92 (Ft. Assiniboine Quartermaster Consolidated File), RG 393 (Department of Dakota). Sources and source locations of some of the materials are unknown.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
2 |
In addition to other documents, includes: 1.18.1892-Complaint
made of Cree Indians camped near Silver Bow Junction, Montana; 1.18.1892-Letter
from James Fergus re: Indians camped on Missouri, doing no harm;
2.19.1892-Letter re: sinking an artesian well at Ft. Assiniboine;
4.26.1892-Letter re: British Minister conveys that Canadian authorities
prepared to take back Crees; 5.20.1892-Letter of support for Chief Little Bear
& his band; 4.4.1895-Documentation of water supply at Ft. Assiniboine;
depth of well dug.
|
1892-1895 |
2 |
In addition to other documents, includes: 1.21.1896-Report No.
54 re: boundaries of the Ft Assiniboine Military Reservation; 5.16.1896-Acting
Secretary of War issues request to gather Cree Indians for delivery;
5.20.1896-Asst. Secretary of War re: deportation of the Cree Indians from
Montana; 6.6.1896-Certificates of citizenship in the U.S. for Canadian Cree
Indians Pap-A-Whis (Lucky Man), Little Chief, Iam Sish (Little Big Bear), Ne
Oak Sham (Four Old Men); 6.16.1896-9.5.1896-Many telegraphs and reports
relating to deportation of Crees to Canada
|
1896 |
2 |
In addition to other documents, includes: 2.25.1887-Series of
telegrams re: pair of blankets to be issued to each of the 60 Cree Indians
camped on south fork of Sun River; 3.1.1887-Rations to Cree Indians;
3.4.1887-Communication in regard to relief of destitute Cree Indians;
3.18.1887-Court Martial of soldiers. Delivery of half-rations to 60 Cree
Indians on south fork of Sun River ordered; 10.12.1887-Sanitation report for
dormitories of Fort Assiniboine barracks; re: Beaver Creek; 12.3.1886-Desertion
of soldiers; 12.3.1887-Orders for half-rations to 119 British Cree Indians near
the Ft. Assiniboine post;12.7.1887-Number increased to 161 British Cree Indians
near the post; 5.23.1888-Boundaries of reservation changed;
12.2.1888-Instructions to issue rations to prevent starvation of Cree Indians
(Fort Shaw); 2.2.1889-Ten British Crees came to Post; 60 more in camp near old
Teton Agency in starving condition. Informed them they would be fed at Ft.
Assiniboine if they went there; 2.27.1889-Court Martial of soldiers;
5.1.1889-R.S. Tingles letter to Attorney General re: fencing in land near Ft.
Assiniboine; 8.25.1890-Water supply issue of Ft. Assiniboine; 12.12.1896-Letter
re: bill deporting Cree Indians to Canada; 4.21.1889-Transport of destitute
Cree Indians to Ft. Assiniboine.
|
1887-1891 |
2 |
In addition to other documents, includes: 5.13.1897-Request
from Ft. Assiniboine for supplies; 7.25.1899-Request from Same Bull, Ft.
Belknap, for a Special Agent to remove half breeds from res.; 3.20.1899-Father
LaCombe request $ to deport British Cree Indians to Canada; 7.13.1899-Letter
from Little Bear requesting tract of land; 8.26.1899-Letter to Little Bear
denying request for tract of land; 8.22.1899-Letter quoting Little Bear re:
“wandering Crees”; 9.15.1899-Wandering Cree Indians ordered off Northern
Cheyenne res.; ordering Indian agents to decline subsistence to wandering Cree
Indians; 1900-Brown trespassing on Assiniboine reserve, removing wood;
3.29.1901-Blackfeet enrollment in question re: mixed bloods receiving rations
and cattle; 10.5.1901-Half breed Cree Indians suffering from small pox driven
from Flathead res. By “Larribee” (mixed blood policeman). Notarized statements
by Joseph & Wm Lawrence, John Morsette, Peter Mitchell and Gus Boucher;
1901-Wood and hay cut by trespassers on res.; govt. confiscates hay cut by
Brown; 1902-Small pox, Canadian Cree Indians in Browning Letter to Chief Rocky
Boy from Attorney John James, condolences on death of Chief’s son;
correspondence to Dept of Interior from John James on behalf of Chief Rocky
Boy; 12.22.1902-Beaver Creek sewer outlet documents; water rights of Michael
Healy; Havre ditch.
|
1897-1902 |
3 |
In addition to other documents, includes:
11.23.1909-Instructions to locate the Rocky Boy’s band of Indians;
11.12.1909-Removal of Chippewa Indians to the Blackfeet Reservation;
5.1.1909-Recommend allotting Rocky Boy’s band to public domain north and east
of Fort Peck Reservation be discontinued and locate them on the Blackfeet
Reservation without delay; 10.20.1909-Request issue of $100.00 worth of
supplies to Chippewa Indians; 10.16.1909-Condition of Rocky Boy band little
short of desperate; 3.16.1909-Letter from Rocky Boy to Secretary of Interior;
1.16.1909-Letter from Fred Morgan reporting condition of Rocky Boy and his
band; entirely destitute; camped 2 miles from Fort Harrison, ponies dying.
|
1906-1909 |
3 |
In addition to other documents, includes: 4.28.1910-Indians
emigrating to the reservation to establish residency; 12.12.1911-Letter from
Linderman to Senator Owen; 3.2.1912-McFatridge reports destitute Indians from
Helena near Billings; 4.15.1912-Letter from Supervisor Baker re: allotment of
Brocky Boy’s Band; 11.22.1912-Re: questions concerning census; 8.21.1913-Re:
removing Rocky Boy band to the Blackfeet Reservation.
|
1910-1913 |
3 |
In addition to other documents, includes: 1931-Narrative
Report Rocky Boy Agency, Section III-VI; 1931-Grazing permits; 9.25.1933-Letter
from Linderman to Collier; 3.19.1934-Letter from Brown re: sale of land;
12.4.1934-Letters regarding Sub-marginal program, Brown and Cowan.
|
1914-1934 |
3 |
In addition to other documents, includes: 3.12.1935-Letter to
Woolridge from Zimmerman re: purchase of Brown Ranch; 3.15.1935-Letter from
Frank Linderman to John Collier, Comm of Indian Affairs; 1939-Letters regarding
addition of 25 landless families to the Reservation; 1.10.1939-Letter to the
President of the U.S. regarding legislation to add public domain Land to the
Reservation; 4.16.1937-Letter to Woolridge re: coal mining privileges;
3.5.1937-Report No. 358 to the 75th Congress: “Reserve Certain Public Domain
lands for Use and Benefit of the Chippewa, Cree and Other Indians of Montana.”
|
1935-1951 |
4 |
9.2.1835-Chardon’s Journal at Fort Clark 1834-1839;
9.10.1835-Letter from K. McKenzie, Fort Union; 1837-Annual Report for the
Subagency of the Upper Missouri; 2.27.38-Letter to Supt. Clark: Effects of
small pox on band of 10,000 Assiniboine; 1853-Blackfeet Agency papers;
1855-Report of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain Most Practicable and
Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific
Ocean; 1868-Half breed named Gardipie brings the lasts mail between Ft Buford
and St Paul, Minnesota
|
1832-1870 |
4 |
10.15.1871-Messenger arrives from Ft. Browning with important
intelligence on winter camp site on the Milk River for purpose of trading
liquor and ammunition to Indians; 11.6.1871-Half-breed camp on Frenchman Creek
– 60 families in houses and lodges for 4-5 miles – camp taken by surprise,
buildings of illicit trade goods burned; 1872-Commission of Indian Affairs
Annual Report; 1855-1912- Executive Orders Relating to Indian Reservations
|
1871-1875 |
4 |
2.8.1876-Reports relative to visit to the Missoula Valley to
ascertain necessity of establishing a military post in the valley or at Hell
Gate Pass for protection of settlers; 12.1.1876-Letter referencing Sitting
Bull; 2.16.1877-Eagle Shield has arrived at camp of hostile Indians;
5.12.1877-White Eagle with 600 lodges, Sitting Bull with hundreds more lodges
in Woody Mountains.
|
1876-1886 |
4 |
1.7.1903-Letter regarding information on using Beaver Creek
for sewer outlet at Ft. Assiniboine; 2.16.1903-Application for Right of Way for
Irrigation and Drainage Ditch Across Ft. Assiniboine; 3.28.1903-Letter from
Sen. Paris Gibson to Senator Miles on behalf of Chief Rocky Boy;
7.20.1903-Negative response from Acting Secretary to Gibson request;
8.20.1903-Secretary Hitchcock responds favorably to Gibson request;
10.25.1903-Statement supporting Rocky Boy Band of Indians by T.C. Davidson;
10.3.1905-Letter from Dixon to Commissioner of Indian Affairs requesting
reservation for Rocky Boy’s; 10.10.1905-Another letter from Dixon;
10.20.1905-Response to Dixon from Larrabbee, Acting Commissioner
|
1903-1905 |
Series III: Land Acquisitions, 1934-1950Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Subseries 1: Land Acquisitions Research and
Land Acquisition Records: transactions authorized - Shambo, Laredo and Havre
area
Documents are labeled “Reproduced at the National Archives –
Pacific NW Region” and stamped “NASW RG 75, Ft. Belknap Indian Agency, Tract
Number Case Files" Boxes 398-400. Documents record the transactions authorized
by the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 between the US Department of the
Interior and land owners in the Shambo, Laredo, and Havre, Montana, areas for
the “use and benefit of the Rocky Boy Indians.” Each Progress Record typically
contains an appraisal of the tract, tract map, handwritten correspondence from
the owner to the Billings Field Agent, and type written reponses to the
owner.
Maps from this series were placed with the Maps series
(Historical 1-99; Department of Interior, 100 Series; Morrison-Maierle, 200
Series; Stetson Engineering, 300 Series)
Processor's note: the files in this series may not reflect the
original order of the files at the National Archives.
|
1935-1948 and undated | |
Box | ||
5 | Progress Records
Progress Records, Tract Numbers 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57,
58, 59, 61, 62, 65, 70, 71, 75, 78, 83, 84, 86, 87, 91, 31, 32
|
1935-1941 |
5 | Progress Records
Progress Records, Tract #’s 6, extensive handwritten and
typed documentation on “The Lena Hallinger Transaction” (approx 200 pgs) and
Tracts 39, 47, 41, 40, 25, 60, 26, 27, 28, 73 and 29
|
1935-1941 |
5 | Progress Records and
Other
Promissory Note, Real Estate Mortgage, Delinquent Tax
documents, Tax statements, Certificate of Redemption of Property Sold for
Taxes, “Lena Hallinger Transaction“ letters, Progress Record for Tracts 9, 10,
13, 16, 17, 20, 22, 23, 24
|
1935-1941 |
5 | Progress Records or Field
Reports
Progress Records or Field Reports, Tract numbers 12, 14, 92,
93, 1, 2, 3, 4
|
1935-1941 |
5 | Progress Records
Progress Records, Tract numbers 15, 15-ABC, legal
complaints, opinions, letters; letters re: tract 4 and 1; Progress Records for
tracts 49 and 4
|
1935-1941 |
5 | Progress Records
Progress Records, Tract #’s 8, 8ABCD, several hundred pages
regarding sale of lands from "The Brown Company"; Progress Records for tracts
1A and 1B
|
1935-1948 |
6 | Land Acquisition Records:
1937
Progress Records, Tract numbers 56A, “The Brown Company”;
MOU; Dusek-Bartlett tracts; 3, 4 (Dusek), 1 (DeHaan)
|
1934-1937 |
6 | Land Acquisition Records -
1938-1940
1938: Brown, DeHaan, Bartlett; 1939: Dusek; 1940: tracts 59,
55, 50, 51, 53, 24, 23, 20, 9, 10, 44, 36, 39, 34, 31,41 and 6
|
1934-1941 |
6 | Land Acquisition Records -
1941
Progress Records, Tract numbers 40, 25, 29, 26A, 27, 28,
28A, 33, 32, 32A, 38, 45, 35 35A, 42, 48, 7, 62, 65, 66, 70, 71, 75, 57, 58,
54, 22, 13, 16, 17
|
1934-1941 |
6 | Land Acquisition Records -
1942
Progress Records 15, 15 ABC, 47, 30, 18, 14, 12, 8ABCD, 49,
Lena Hallenger letters
|
1941-1942 |
6 | Land Acquisition Records -
1943-1948 and undated
1943:15 DEFG, 26; 1944: three letters re: Lena Hallenger;
1947-48: three letters re: Helen Brown, and $24k check issued her (she was
deceased); No date: Lena Hallenger records
|
1934-1948 |
6 | Land Acquisition Records - not
sorted by year
Progress Records, Tract numbers 26, 82, 34, 34 ABCD, 35A,
36, 42, 43, 44, 45
|
1941-1943 |
6 | Land Acquisition Records - not
sorted by year
Progress Records, Tract numbers 30, 3, 4, DeHaan, Cowan,
Brown
|
1935-1942 |
Subseries 2: Land Acquisitions - Box Elder
area
Documents record land transactions authorized by the Indian
Reorganization Act of 1934 in the Box Elder area for additional land base for
additional enrollment of landless indians. Documents are labeled “Reproduced at
the National Archives – Pacific NW Region” and stamped “NASW RG 75, Ft.
Belknap, Land Acquisition Project Files, 1937-47." Boxes 397
|
1934-1950 | |
Box | ||
7 | Historical Documents - Envelope
#1, Box 397
Bakers, Bowery, Beckers, Brown, Dusek, Bartlett, Washington
National Insurance Company; Letters dealing with the State of Montana land
exchange.
|
1934-1941 |
7 | Historical Documents - Envelope
#2, Box 397
Tribal Resolution for reciprocal use of lands, Daniels
ownership; letters with State of Montana regarding leasing agreement on State
owned lands; proposed exchanged cannot be consummated in as much as the
Constitution of Montana is affected; Dusek, Clark, Cobb, Banister, Brown,
Christiansen, Bronson, Bartlett, Boyce, Scheberle, Corcoran, Troy, Williamson;
Senate Bill No. 52.
|
1935-1947 |
7 | Historical Documents - Envelope
#3, Box 397
Letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Chicago
Illinois re: statistical analysis of population of Rocky Boy’s Reservation;
memo re: Mining Lease-Tribal Lands in favor of Keith Abel; Bowery, Pratt,
Walker; leases and lease applications; letters from State of Montana Board of
Equalization; Sticka, Warrings; Christiansen, Holst, Delp, Rosenbaum, Stafford,
Bronson, Stewart, Dobbie; Project Plan – Rocky Boy’s Reservation; letters re:
supporting additions to reservation land base “Rocky Boy Indian Resettlement
Project”; letters re: enrollment of landless Montana Indians at Rocky Boy
Agency; clarification documents defining “ward” and “non-ward” Indians.
|
1934-1950 |
7 | Historical Documents - Envelope
#4, Box 396
This envelope is empty. Collection notes indicate the folder
was empty prior to being scanned.
|
|
7 | Historical Documents - Envelope
#5, Box 396
Tract #2, Cowan; DeHaan, Beaver Creek Park controversy,
Tract #6, 7, 8,8ABCD, 21, 21A,26, 18, 15,15ABCDEFG, 17, 49, 47, 38, 30, 26A,
26, 12, 14
|
1936-1946 |
7 | Historical Documents - Envelope
#6, Box 396
Pratt, Rosenbaum, Frame, Hallenger, Gens, Kisserow, Delp,
Corcoran
|
1941-1946 |
7 | Historical Documents - Envelope
#7, Box 396
Delp
|
1943-1945 |
Series IV: Regional Water System, 1986-2002Return to Top
Largely background information such as memoranda of agreement and legislation.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
8 | Miscellaneous |
1986-1997 |
8 | Correspondence
Department of Interior re: Tribal Water Rights Settlements and
Allottees, Proposed Policy; Symposium on Settlement of Indian Reserved Water
Rights Claims, wrap-up presentation.
|
2000 |
8 | Sample Agreement
Bureau of Reclamation Agreement between the United States of
America and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe
|
2000 |
8 | Sample Agreement
Cooperative Agreement between Bureau of Reclamation and the
Ogalala Sioux Tribe
|
undated |
8 | Water Right Claim Examination
Rules |
2000 |
8 | Rosebud Land Use and
Environmental Codes
e-mail about land use codes, but codes not included in
file.
|
2000 |
8 | Rocky Boy / North Central Montana
Regional Water System Publicity |
1999 and 2002 |
8 | Memorandum of Agreement between
the Indian Health Service and the Chippewa-Cree Indian Tribe |
1989-1991 |
8 | Memorandum of Understanding
between and among Representatives of the Chippewa Cree Tribe and Non-Tribal
Community Water Supply Systems forming and ad hoc coordinating committee for
the Rocky Boy / North Central Montana Regional Water Supply System |
1995 |
8 | Memorandum of Understanding among
the State of Montana and the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation
and the United States |
1994 |
8 | Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky
Boy's Reservation Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement and Water Supply
Enhancement Act of 1999 |
1999 |
8 | Senate Report 106-200 /
Legislative History |
1999 |
8 | An Act Ratifying a Reserved Water
Rights Compact Among the State of Montana, The Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky
Boy's Indian Reservation, and the United States of America |
1997 |
8 | Compact of Self-Governance
between Rocky Boy's and Bureau of Indian Affairs |
1995 |
8 | Agreement between Rocky Boy's and
Bureau of Reclamation
final working draft
|
1999 |
8 | Annual Funding Agreement between
Rocky Boy’s and Bureau of Reclamation |
1999 |
8 | Release of Claims Against the
United States |
2002 |
8 | Annual Funding Agreement for 1999
between the Chippewa Cree Tribe and the United States of America |
1999 |
8 | Annual Funding Agreement between
the Gila River Indian Community and the Bureau of Reclamation |
1998 |
8 | Re: Deeds transferring water
rights, land and water rights (Sailor’s, Corcoran’s, Brown Co.,)
notebook Table of Contents reads: Memorandum on Rocky Boy
Water Rights
|
undated |
Series V: Compact Drafts, 1990-2001Return to Top
Documents, notes and drafts related to the the creation and ratification of the Water Rights Compact.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
9 | Babbitt Issue Papers |
1997 |
9 | Damages Research / Legal and
Economic Analyses |
1993 and undated |
9 | Settlement Workbook |
1992 and undated |
9 | Background Documents January 6
1997 Meeting |
1994-2001 |
9 | Meeting with Objectors to Rocky
Boy Compact. Havre and Big Sandy, Montana. January 10, 2001 |
1994-2000 |
9 | Team Briefing Papers re:
Background of Indian Water Rights |
|
9 | Tribal and State
Compacts |
1996 |
9 | “Summarizing the Milk River Water
Supply Study” Spiral Bound, Special Report |
July 1990 |
9 | Water Supply Augmentation Work
Group, 5/92 Spiral Bound, Interim Report |
March 1992 |
9 | Non-Indian Water Needs/Hydrology
Work Group |
|
9 | Tribal Needs Work Group
|
April 1992 |
9 | Environmental Work Group
|
1990 |
9 | Intergovernmental Coordinating
Committee Meetings in 1991, 1992 in Billings and Great Falls re: Milk River
|
|
10 | Motion In Limine and Support
Brief; Motion to Approve Compact and for Summary Judgment Dismissing Objections
and Supporting Brief
title of binder reads "Book 2 of 2". The binder starts with
Exhibit 8 and goes through Exhibit 15
|
1990-2001 |
10 | Chippewa Cree tribe of the Rocky
Boy’s Reservation Tribal Negotiation Team: Federal Issues Notebook |
1995-1996 |
10 | Rocky Boy's Settlement
Notebook
Probably Kim Gottschalk's notebook of draft versions and
suggested revisions.
|
1997-1998 |
10 | H.R. 3658 Hearing September 23,
1998 |
1998 |
10 | Rocky Boy's Water Rights
Settlement
Kim J. Gottschalk's settlement notebook
|
1994-1995 |
10 | Reference Documents for Volume 1:
Rocky Boys Settlement Compact Tribal Legal / Technical Working Draft Volume 2 –
December 16, 1996 |
1995-1996 |
10 | Rocky Boys Settlement Compact
Tribal Legal/Technical Working Draft |
January 5, 1997 |
10 | Rocky Boys Settlement Compact
Legal Working Group Draft |
January 3, 1997; Revised January 31, 1997 |
Series VI: Research, 1992-1999Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
11 | Rocky Boy Litigation Database
Index |
1992-1993 |
11 | Tribal Information: Water
Code |
undated |
11 | Authorities - Boundary Waters
Treaty |
1909 |
11 | Authorities to
Settlement
copies of several published sources
|
undated |
11 | Authorities - Bureau of Indian
Affairs Regulations re: Indian Irrigation Systems |
1982 and undated |
11 | Authorities - Department of
Interior Criteria and Procedure |
1990-1991 |
11 | Authorities - Indian Water
Codes
Comprehensive Code of Justice of the Assiniboine and Sioux
Tribes. Fort Peck Reservation, as amended
|
1989 |
11 | Arbitration
Copy of June 1994 article in Arizona Attorney
entitled Cave Arbitration
|
1994 |
11 | Barbara Cosens - Indian Water
Rights Settlement Conference
copy of remarks by Cosens at conference.
|
1993 |
11 | Clean Water Report
August 2, 1994 copy of Clean Water Report, a
publication of CJE Associates.
|
1994 |
11 | Ford Foundation
Project
Correspondence and draft. Indian Water Rights: Negotiating the
Future. A Ford Foundation Project to Enhance Tribal Participation in Resolving
Water Disputes in the Southwest.
|
1993 |
11 | Indain Water Law
Blueprint for Reform: The Commissioner's Plan for Reinventing
Reclamation. Also includes articles from the journal Rivers and
Policy Studies Journal.
|
1993 |
11 | HYDROSS Information
Water supply study - HYDROSS Model of the Milk River Basin
|
1993 |
11 | Montana Bill Drafting
Information |
circa 1994 |
11 | Montana Water Law
includes journal articles
|
1984-1990 |
11 | Municipal, Rural and Industrial
Water System Information |
1994 |
11 | Groundwater
1987 article from Natural Resources Journal
|
1987 |
11 | Municipal, Rural and Industrial
Water Supply - Off Reservation Source Information |
1994 |
11 | Scoping Documents / Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission |
1994 |
11 | Sunchild Remarks on
Water |
1994 |
11 | Publicity - Montana
Magazine
|
1993 |
11 | Authorities - Indian Dams Safety
Act of 1993
copy of S. 442
|
1993 |
11 | Authorities - Montana Rules of
Evidence 408 (Comprise) |
1992 |
11 | Authorities - Tribal Constitution
and Bylaws |
1935 |
11 | Authorities - Montana SB 310 Late
Claims Study |
1994 |
11 | Authorities - Waiver / Release of
Claims |
1988-1990 and undated |
11 | Decisions - State Court
Verification of N-Indian Claims |
1954-1991 |
11 | Related Cases - Sage
Creek |
1984 |
11 | Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission. Engineer Guidelines for the Evaluation of Hydropower
Projects |
April 1991 |
11 | Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission. Hydroelectric Project Licensing Handbook |
December1991 |
11 | Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission - Rocky Boy's
FERC Project 3574. Tiber Dam Hydroelectric Project, Marias
River, Liberty County, Montana. Project description and supporting information
for first stage of consultation.
|
1992 |
11 | Resource Mediation - Hydropower
Project Information |
1992-1993 |
12 | Resource Mediation - American
Arbitration Association
published guidelines for arbitration
|
1992-1994 |
12 | Resource Mediation - Blackfeet
Negotiation Information |
1990-1993 |
12 | Resource Mediation - Common
Ground - Eileen Shore |
1986 and 1993 |
12 | Resource Mediation - Ft Belknap
Negotiation Information |
1991 |
12 | Legal Memos - Attorney
Notes |
1991-1994 |
12 | Legal Memos - BIA: Funding for
Enlargement of Bonneau |
1994 |
12 | Legal Memos - Briefing
Paper |
1991 |
12 | Legal Memos - MOU: Blackfeet,
Chippewa Cree and Assiniboine and Gros Ventre Tribes |
undated |
12 | Legal Memos - MOU: Rocky Boy's
and BIA, Billings Office re: Quantification |
1985-1992 |
12 | Resource Related Cases - Land
Acquisition - Turtle Mountain Chippewa Public Domain Allotments |
1953-1955 and 1992 |
12 | Resource Related Cases - Land
Acquisition - Anna Nichols Estate |
1992-1995 |
12 | Resource Related Cases - Land
Acquisition - Raymond Tow (1 of 2) |
1984-1990 |
12 | Resource Related Cases - Land
Acquisition - Raymond Tow (2 of 2) |
1987-1989 |
12 | Resource Related Cases - Gila
Valley (Arizona), Healing v. Jones |
1987-1989 |
12 | Resource Related Cases - US v.
Aageson, Complaint |
1979 and 1991 |
12 | Resource Related Cases - Tribal
RT: Use for Any Purpose |
1985-1992 |
12 | Research - Tribal Water
Marketing |
1985-1992 |
12 | Legal Memos - Tribal Water
Rights |
1991-1993 |
12 | Legal Memos - Tribal
Resolutions |
1993 |
12 | Legal Memos - Water Compact
Draft: State of Montana / Ft Belknap / Rocky Boy's |
1992 |
12 | Legal Memos - Water
Quality |
1990 |
12 | Reports - Analysis, Household
Ability and Willingness to Pay |
circa 1995 |
12 | Reports - BIA Safety of Dams,
comments on Bonneau Dam |
1987-1991 |
12 | Reports - BIA Safety of Dams,
comments on Bonneau Dam |
1991-1992 |
12 | Reports - Continental HYDRO
Assessment at Tiber Dam |
1996 |
12 | Research - Corcoran Ditch Tract
Information |
1936 and 1996 |
12 | Reports - Economic Benefits
[Local Secondary Benefits from the Proposed Settlement Agreement] |
1993-1994 |
12 | Reports - East Fork
Damsite |
circa 1994 |
12 | Reports - McKusick / Water
Use
includes document entitled "Summary of Economic Aspects"
prepared by Northwest Economic Associates
|
1992 |
12 | Reports - Miscellaneous Technical
Data |
1992 and undated |
12 | Reports - Missouri River
Report |
1996 |
12 | Reports - MR and I Plan
Formulation |
1994 |
12 | Deposition of Arthur H. Roth,
Jr. |
1994 |
13 | Phase II, 1999
Meetings |
1999 |
13 | Meeting Notebooks - David Hayes
[Counselor to the Secretary of the Interior] |
1997 |
13 | Meeting Notebooks - unlabeled
[Water Rights Negotiating Committee?] |
1997 |
13 | Meeting Notebooks - November 3-5,
1997 |
1997 |
13 | Meeting Notebooks - Tribal Legal
/ Technical Work Group, Working Draft, May 1-3, 1996 |
1996 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings -
Agendas |
1992-1996 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - April
10, 1997 (Great Falls) |
1997 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - April
24-25, 1997 (Boulder) |
1997 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - May
5-7, 1997 (Great Falls) |
1997 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - July
30, 1997 (Havre) |
1997 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings -
Federal-Water Rights Task Force, September 5, 1997 (Washington, DC) |
1997 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - Joint
Federal Tribal Task Force on Water Funding, October 6-7, 1997
(Phoenix) |
1997 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - With
David Hayes and Pam Williams, November 19, 1997 |
1997 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings -
December 16, 1997 (Great Falls) |
1997 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - Joint
Federal-Tribal Task Force, December 17, 1997 (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
1997 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - January
20, 1998 (Great Falls) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - January
26-27, 1998 (Washington, DC) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings -
February 17, 1998 (Havre) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings -
February 24-27, 1998 (Washington, DC) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - March
3, 1998 (Great Falls) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - April
28, 1998 (Great Falls) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - May 11,
1998 (Great Falls) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - June 2,
1998 (Great Falls) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - July 7,
1998 (Havre) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - July
21, 1998 (Great Falls) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - August
18, 1998 (Great Falls) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - With
Senator Burns, August 18, 1998 (Billings) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings -
September 15, 1998 (Great Falls) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - H.R.
3658, Opening Statement of David Hayes, September 23, 1998 (Washington,
DC) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - October
20, 1998 (Great Falls) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - October
23, 1998 |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings -
November 17, 1998 (Great Falls) |
1998 |
13 | Phase II, 1999 Meetings - Water
Rights Negotiations with Blackfeet, December 7, 1998 (Helena) |
1998 |
13 | Meetings - Montana Reserved Water
Rights Compact Commission, December 9, 1998 (Helena) |
1996 |
13 | Meetings - Tiber Pipeline Ad hoc
Committee |
1996 |
13 | Meetings - Reserved Water Right
Compact Commission |
1994-1995 |
13 | Research - Legal
Memoranda
This large file includes legal memos, including extensive
documentation, on the topics of: Rocky Boy's Permanent Homeland, Rocky Boy's
Water Rights, Rocky Boy's Statute of Limitations' Problems with Water System,
and Review of Rocky Boy's Historical Documents.
|
1994-1996 |
13 | Research - Priority Dates,
General Research
This large file includes a memo entitled "Summaries of
Arguments for Increased Water Rights for the Rocky Boy's Reservation" as well
drafts and apparently final versions of a document entitled "Priority Dates for
Water Rights Claims of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's
Reservation."
|
1992-1994 and undated |
13 | Research - Priority Dates,
Boundary Acts and Legislative History |
1908 and 1974 |
13 | Research - Priority Dates, Memo
by Biggs
includes oral history transcripts
|
1992 |
13 | Research - Priority Dates, Water
Rights Negotiating Team Agenda, September 9, 1993 |
1993 |
13 | Research - Priority Dates,
Mescalero Briefs |
1986 and undated |
13 | Research - Priority Dates, by E.
Albeita |
undated |
13 | Research - Priority Dates,
Congressional Records |
undated |
14 | Research - Meeting
Notebooks
A) Tribal Negotiating Team Meeting December 17-20, 1996
Federal Documents Grey 3 ring binder; B) Y. Knight Rocky Boys Notebook for
Meetings on 9/26-28/96 Billings MT Blue 3 ring binder; C) Y. Knights Rocky Boy
Notebook for Meetings on 9/9-10/96 Blue 3 ring binder; D) Ad Hoc Committee
Meeting August 8 & 9, 1996 Grey 3 ring binder
|
1996 |
14 | Research - Federal Issues
Notebooks
A) K. Gottschalk notebook; B) Y. Knight notebook
|
|
14 | Research - RB Gen Info
Folder
Tribal Water Marketing: Report prepared in Conjunction the
1995 Symposium on the Settlement of Indian Water Rights Claims
|
|
14 | Untitled
info regarding water funding task force, regional water
meetings, federal team
|
|
14 | Untitled
spiral notebook, miscellaneous documents Folder: Pipeline
|
|
14 | Untitled
original drafts and working drafts of documents
|
|
14 | Discovery 3
Discovery 3: Rocky Boy Objectors; Clear cover, 3 ring binder
|
|
14 | Second copy of Discovery
3
Purple 3 ring binder
|
|
15 | Phase II Western Area Power
Association
A) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights – Phase II Western Area Power
Association Black 3 ring binder; B) WAPA AUTHORITY STATUTES Blue 3 ring binder;
C) Alternative Funding - WAPA
|
|
15 | Bonneau Dam & Reservoir-
Draft Enviro Assessment |
|
15 | Phase II –S. 1899 – 105th
Congress |
|
15 | Phase II – S. 1771 – 105th
Congress |
|
15 | Federal Negotiations Notebooks
III
Green 3 ring binder
|
|
15 | ABA Annual Water Law Conference
materials
A) Background Data re S. 1899 hearing June 24, 1998 Green 3
ring binder; B) RB Water Rights Research - Phase II - Outlines of RB Speakers;
C) 17th Annual Water Law Conference: Evolving Federalism in Water Law and
Policy San Diego, CA
|
February 1999 |
15 | Phase II – Related
Cases
A) In re Adjudication Rights in Gila River; B) Adjudication
Rights of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe; C) Regional Water Project
|
|
15 | Phase II – Negotiating Teams for
Indian Water Rights Settlements |
|
16 | Research Done By Karen Parish Re:
Bert Corcoran
A) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights – Research Done By Karen Parish
Re: Bert Corcoran; B) Loose packet of land exchange documents re: Sailor,
Corcoran
|
|
16 | Cases |
|
16 | Work Drafts
Issue Papers – Nik
|
|
16 | John A. Nelson v. C & C
Plywood Corp.
Re: Blackfeet and Gros Ventre Tribes
|
|
16 | Todd Araujo Re: Tribal Cultural
& Intellectual Property Rights |
|
16 | Todd Araujo Re: Tribal Cultural
& Intellectual Property Rights
Todd Araujo Re: BOR’s Final EIS on the Reclamation Reform
Act
|
|
16 | Statute of Limitations/T. Little
Axe |
|
16 | Outline: Legal Arguments
Concerning Chippewa Cree Tribe’s Water Rights Priority Date |
|
16 | Issue Papers Ron – Legal
Memorandum |
|
16 | Related Cases
A) Arizona v. San Carlos Apache; B) General Adj. of …the Big
Horn System…, Wyoming; C) Arizona v. San Carlos Apache; E) Arizona v. San
Carlos Apache
|
|
16 | Chippewa Cree Tribe et al. v.
U.S., No. 92-675L
A) Proposed Ft. McDowell Water Settlement B) Ft. McDowell
settlement briefing document C) Ft. McDowell Water Settlement
|
|
16 | Chippewa Cree Tribe et al. v.
U.S., No. 92-675L |
|
16 | Related Cases – In Re:
Applicability of 85-2-217 MCA to individuals |
|
17 | Attorney General’s Documents Re
Fort Peck Compact Subbasin
White 3 ring binder
|
|
17 | Compact Commission &
Supporting Documents
White 3 ring binder
|
|
17 | Research Memos
Black 3 ring binder
|
|
17 | Research Memos: Index Volume
II
Blue 3 ring binder
|
|
17 | Appendix 1 Proposed Decree of the
Tribal Water Rights |
|
17 | Plaintiffs’ Responsive Assessment
of the Arthur Andersen Reports Relative to this case
Black Spiral notebook
|
|
17 | Research Memorandum of Law on
Phase I Trial on Liability Issues by Walter Echo-Hawk, May 20, 1986.
Muckleshoot Tribe v. Puget Power and the City of Auburn, Washington |
|
17 | Motion to Discuss Objections and
To Approve Fort Peck – Montana Compact |
|
17 | Research for Legal
Subcommittee |
|
18 | Research
A) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights – General research: MRI pipeline –
Environ. Assessment funds; B) Indian Water Rights, Univ. of Arizona –General
Research; C) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights – General research: “A History of the
Rocky Boy Res.,” Wessel; D) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights – General research: FERC
Appl.: Tiber Dam Proj. #3574-MT, 3/93
|
|
18 | Claims material |
|
18 | Material from Rick
Dauphinais |
|
18 | Research |
|
18 | General Research
A) Reclamation Facilities Transfer Act H.R. 1232; B) General
Research; C) General Research: Competing Non Indian water rights; D) General
Research
|
|
18 | Tribes Draft Compact |
|
19 | Research
A) Winters Doctrine Articles; B) Winters Doctrine Articles; C)
Research/Legal Memos Discovery: BIA Expert Reports; D) Research/Legal Memos
Issues List
|
|
19 | Research
A) Water Rights – Native American; B) Research/Legal Memos –
PL638 K and Procurement Requirements; C) Research /Legal Memos Priority
Date-Claims; D) Research/Legal Memos Related Case Memos; E) Research/Legal
Memos Settlement Agreement Draft
|
|
19 | Montana v. US.: Pleadings –
Supreme Ct; 84-333
A) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Research – Reports – NCMRWS Needs
Assessment & Feasibility; B) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Research/Reports PIA
Assessments; C) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Research/Reports Pending Litigation
Affect. Ind. Water Rts.; D) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Research/Reports Plan
Formulation Ft. Totten; E) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Research/Reports SOD –
Senate Reports; F) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Research/Reports Technical
Information; G) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Research/Reports Water System
Alternative
|
|
19 | Montana v. U.S.: Pleadings –
Supreme Ct; 84-333 |
|
20 | Research
A) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights – Final Order of the BNRC
establishing water res./Ft. Peck Dam, 7/92; B) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights – Final
Environmental impact statement for water res./Ft. Peck, 1/92; C) Rocky Boy’s
Water Rights – Application for Reservations of Water
|
|
20 | Research
A) Federal Reserved Water Rights: Aboriginal Water Rights; B)
Federal Reserved Water Rights: Implied Water Rights, 1916; C) Federal Reserved
Water Rights: Reservation Water Use History; D) Fed. Res. Water Rights:
Quantification; Ground water; Storage rights; E) Federal Reserved Water Rights:
Claims – Public Domain; F) Federal Reserved Water Rights: Admin. Water rights
on res.
|
|
20 | Attorney Research: Permanent
homeland & storage rights |
|
20 | T. Labin Research memo re:
Inadequate Water system claim |
|
20 | Attorney Research: Permanent
homeland & storage rights |
|
21 | Phase II – Attorney Research
|
|
21 | Research – Legal memoranda –
Water Quality Standards (RB) |
|
21 | Research – State’s Draft
Compact |
|
21 | Reserved Water Rights: Articles
on tribal history |
|
21 | Untitled
A) Attorney notes: Duffy meeting, 12/1395 (AM/PM); B) Rocky
Boy’s Water Rights –General Research: DOI Criteria & Procedures; C) Master
Index for Documents re Water Supply at Fort Assiniboine; D) Material from
October 8-9, 1993 meeting; E) Bismarck meetings, September 1993; F) Storage
Research; G) Acquired Lands Water: Confidential: 1990 Fact Finding Report of
the Fed. Negotiating Team – General Research
|
|
21 | Research re
Advocacy/Deposition/Expert Skills
A) Administrative Advocacy Skills; B) General Trial Advocacy
Skills; C) General Information re deposition Practice; D) Experts
|
|
21 | Research – Fort McDowell Water
Rights Settlement Agreement
Blue binder
|
|
21 | Untitled
Spiral “Draft & Confidential Appendices to Damages
Assessment for the Rocky Boy’s Reservation Water System by Carlson, Of
Dornbusch & Co., Inc. May 1994 ***excellent information on the Submarginal
Lands Program; B) Spiral “Draft & Confidential Attachments to Damages
Assessment for the Rocky Boy’s Reservation Water System, by Carlson, of
Dornbusch, Inc. August 1994 ***excellent compilation of historical documents,
well indexed
|
|
22 | General Research – Assumption of
Duty (2 of 2) |
|
22 | General Research – Assumption of
Duty (1 of 2) |
|
22 | Research –Working Draft Notebooks
(1/97) |
|
22 | General Research
A) Thomas Wessel Report; B) Misc technical data; C) Case
research; D) Assessment notebook, 1992
|
|
23 | Related Cases – Fort Peck Compact
Subbasin documents |
|
23 | Related Cases – Gopher, et al., v
McGillis, et al. |
|
23 | Related Cases – US & Pyramid
Lake v. Orr Water Ditch Co. |
|
23 | Montana Water Law
Notebook |
|
23 | Guidebook & Videotape for
Montana Water Court |
|
23 | Mashpee Recognition 560161 –
Research – 108th Congress |
|
23 | YTK’s
Copies/Notes/Research |
|
23 | YTK’s
Copies/Notes/Research |
Series VII: Correspondence and Research, Phase 2, 1998-1999 and undatedReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
24 | Research – Federal-Tribal Water
Funding Task Force |
|
24 | Research – Water
Marketing |
|
24 | Enron Corporation |
|
24 | Research |
|
24 | Research – Attorney
Notes |
|
24 | Research – Attorney Notes – S.
438 106th Congress |
|
24 | North Central MT Regional Water
System Feasibility
this folder is empty
|
|
24 | Research – Related Cases – Oglala
Sioux Tribal Water Code |
|
24 | Publicity RB/North Central MT
Regional Water System News |
|
24 | Other - Miscellaneous |
|
24 | Research – Separation of Power
doctrine |
|
24 | Settlement – Legislative History
of the Rocky Boy Settlement Act
A) 6/24/98 Senate Hearing on S. 1899;
B) Robert Anderson’s Testimony re S. 1899 on 6/24/98;
C) Chris Tweeten’s Testimony re S. 1899 on 6/24/98;
D) Ben Nighthorse Campell’s Testimony on 6/24/98;
E) Bruce Sunchild’s Testimony re H.R. 3658 on 9/23/98;
F) David Hayes’ Testimony re H.R. 3658 on 9/23/98;
G) Barbara Cosens’ Testimony re H.R. 3658 on 9/23/98;
H) 6/30/99 Senate Hearing on S. 438;
I) Jim Morsette’s Testimony re S. 438 on 6/30/99;
J) David Hayes Testimony re S. 438 on 6/30/99;
K) Chris Tweeten’s Testimony re S. 438 on 6/30/99;
L) 7/1/99 Legislative Hearing on H.R. 795;
M) David Hayes’ Testimony re H.R. 795 on 7/01/99;
N) Jim Morsette’s Testimony re H.R. 795 on 7/01/99;
O) Chris Tweeten’s Testimony re H.R. 795 on 7/01/99;
P) John Dootlittle’s Testimony re H.R. 795 on 7/01/99;
Q) Roger St. Pierre’s Testimony re S 1899 on 6/24/98
|
|
24 | Correspondence – 1998
Correspondence/Draft Legislation |
|
24 | Research - Fact Sheets on Water
Rights Settlement Acts |
1998-1999 |
24 | Research material |
|
24 | untitled
Affadavit of Ronald Billstein, Jim Morsette; maps of Key
Settlement relationships of CCT Rocky Boys’ Indian Reservation; Appendix 3 (not
updated) sent to Ms. Knight from Sarah Bond
|
Series VIII: Related Cases and Miscellaneous, 1990sReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
25 | Attorney Notes – Settlement
Workbook, Tribal Response to State’s Counteroffer |
|
25 | Settlement Material -
Confidential Damage Assessments - Damages Assessment for the Rocky Boy’s
Reservation Water System prepared for the Chippewa Cree Tribe by Dornbusch
& Company, 8/24/94; Appendixes included |
|
25 | Settlement
A) Government Dept. of Interior Guidelines; B) Federal
Government Fed. Reg.: DOI Policy re Indian Water Rights; C) Federal Claims re
Milk River Water; D) Claims Against US; E) Storage; F) Alternative Water
Diversion Plans; G) Milk River Joint Negotiations
|
|
25 | Related Cases
A) General Related Cases B) Blackfeet v. Watt C) Montana Water
Adj.: Northern Cheyenne D) Ft. Hall Settlement Agreement E) Ft. Peck Settlement
Compact F) Ft. Peck Expert Proposal G) Confederated Salish & Kootenai
Tribes v. Montana H) Salt River Indian Water Rights Settlement I) Ft. Berthold
Irrigation Assessment J) Bitz v. Acting Billings Area Director, BIA K) Walker
River Paiute comments re: CA-NV Compact
|
|
25 | Related Cases
Montana Dept. of Fish & Wildlife v. Water Ct. of MT (2
copies)
|
|
25 | Related Cases – Bureau of Land
Management and State of MT |
|
25 | Related Cases – Contract re: Jim
Parris |
|
25 | FOIA Request |
Series IX: Correspondence , 1981-2002Return to Top
First two boxes of this series include correspondence between NARF and CCT, Blackfeet Tribes and billing to consultants regarding Milk River Basin and Missouri River Basin.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
26 | Correspondence
A) 1984 Correspondence; B) 1983 Correspondence; C) 1982
Correspondence; D) 1981 Correspondence
|
|
26 | Correspondence
A) 1995 Correspondence: July - December; B) 1995
Correspondence: January - June
|
|
26 | Attorney Contracts
A) Client Agreements: B) Budget and Funding Information: C)
Requests for Proposals: D) Tribal Resolutions
|
|
26 | Case Management
A) Rocky Boy Tribes Contracts: B) Reports/BIA: C) ANA Reports:
D) Consultants – FY 94 and FY 95 Budget Projections: E) Consultants – FY 94 and
FY 95 Budget Projections: F) Consultants – FY 94: G) Case Management FY 92
Budget: H) Consultants – Budgets – U.S. Dept. of Interior: I) Case Management –
Rocky Boy’s Assistance Proposal 1985: J) Case Management – Tribal
Resolutions
|
|
26 | Consultants
A) Bateridge: Proposals, Contracts & Invoices; B)
Bateridge: Reports
|
|
26 | Dornbush: Correspondence &
Contracts
A) Dornbush: Proposals, Contracts & Invoices; B)
Consultants: Dornbush; C) floppy disk, draft report
|
|
27 | Correspondence
A) 1992 Correspondence: January - March; B) 1991
Correspondence: October – December
|
|
27 | Correspondence
A) 1991 Correspondence: January – July; B) 1991
Correspondence: August – September
|
|
27 | Correspondence
A) 1990 Correspondence; B) 1989 Correspondence; C) 1988
Correspondence
|
|
27 | Correspondence
A) 1987 Correspondence; B) 1986 Correspondence; C) 1985
Correspondence
|
|
28 | Correspondence
A) Correspondence – State Attorney General re: Water Court
Proceed; B) Correspondence – Judge Bruce Loble; C) Correspondence – Federal
Team Tasks; D) Negotiations Summary/Compact Comm.; E) State Permit Process
|
|
28 | Correspondence
A) 1994 Correspondence: November – December; B) 1994
Correspondence: June – December (good historical document); C) 1994
Correspondence: January – May
|
|
28 | Correspondence 1995, (March –
December, out of sequence) |
|
28 | Correspondence
A) 1993 Correspondence: January - June; B) 1993
Correspondence: July – December
|
|
28 | Correspondence
A) 1992 Correspondence: September – December (good Settlement
Summary); B) 1992 Correspondence: April - August
|
|
29 | Phase II - Correspondence
|
|
29 | Phase II - Correspondence
A) 1997 Correspondence: March – April; B) 1997 Correspondence:
January – February
|
|
29 | Phase II - Correspondence
1996 Correspondence
|
|
29 | Phase II - Correspondence
1996 Correspondence
|
|
29 | Montana Reserved Water Rights
Compact Commission
A) Mt. Res. Water Rights Compact Comm., 1995; B) Mt. Res.
Water Rights Compact Comm., 1983-1994
|
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30 | Phase III - Correspondence
A) Correspondence -2000; B) Correspondence -2000
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30 | Phase II – 1999
Correspondence/Draft Legislation |
January 1999 |
30 | Phase II – 1999
Correspondence/Draft Legislation |
February 1999 |
30 | Phase II – 1999
Correspondence/Draft Legislation
A) March - May 1999 – Correspondence/Draft Legislation; B)
June 1999 – Correspondence/Draft Legislation
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30 | Phase II – 1999
Correspondence/Draft Legislation
October - December 1999 – Correspondence/Draft Legislation
|
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31 | Correspondence FY
2002
A) File #2; B) File #1
|
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31 | Correspondence FY 2001 File
#5 |
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31 | Correspondence FY 2001 File
#4 |
|
31 | Correspondence FY 2001 File
#3 |
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31 | Correspondence FY 2001 File
#2 |
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31 | 2000 Correspondence |
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32 | Discovery - Draft Discovery
6 |
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32 | Discovery - Settlement Parties
Responses to Interrogatories |
|
32 | Objector’s Notice of Objection
and Request for Hearing
binder
|
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32 | Discovery – Interrogatories to
Settlement Parties |
|
32 | Discovery – Objectors Response to
Interrogatories
A) Objectors Response – Lyle & Barbara Ophus; B) Objectors
Response – Keith B. Rhodes; C) Objectors Response – Verna Wadell Trust; D)
Objectors Response #2 – Verna Wadell Trust
|
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32 | Legal Proceedings – Draft
Pleadings in Water Courts of MT |
|
32 | Phase II – Case
Management
A) Case Management; B) ANA Application Letter &
Resolution; C) Resolution
|
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32 | Correspondence - 2001 |
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32 | Research
A) Rule 54(b) Cert. for Interloq Appeal; B) Legislative
History – 1908 Act Report
|
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33 | Research
Attorney Notes
|
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33 | Research
A) Constitution & Bylaws of the Chippewa Cree; B) Chippewa
Cree Tribe’s Corporate Charter
|
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33 | Research
Standing
|
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33 | Research
Summary Description of Water Right
|
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33 | Research
Responses to Compact Objections
|
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33 | Research
A) Meetings FY 2002; B) Meetings FY 2001; C) Meetings FY 2000
|
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33 | Research
Public Meetings
|
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33 | Research
1/10/01 Meetings w/ Objectors in MT
|
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33 | Research
A) Correspondence FY 2002 – File #7; B) Correspondence FY 2002
– File #6; C) Correspondence FY 2002 – File #5
|
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33 | Research
A) Correspondence FY 2002 – File #4; B) Correspondence FY 2002
– File #3
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Series X: Consultants, circa 1880s-1990sReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box | ||
34 | Wright Water
Engineers |
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34 | Tiller Research
A) Tiller Res., Inc.: Indices to documents & maps; B)
Tiller Res., Inc.: Evaluation of reports; C) Archival documents (Chapter 6
footnotes); D) Archival documents (Chapter 4 footnotes); E) Historical
Documents
|
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34 | Parker
A) Alan Parker: Proposals, Contracts & Invoices; B)
Parker: Correspondence; C) Parker: Reports
|
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34 | Shaffer
Mark E. Shaffer; Proposals, Contracts & Invoices; B) Mark
E. Shaffer: Groundwater Resources of RB Res
|
|
34 | Stetson Engineering
A) Stetson Engineering: Proposals, Contracts & Invoices;
B) Stetson Engineering: Reports
|
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34 | George Waters
A) George Waters/Contracts; B) George Waters/Correspondence
|
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34 | Nicklason: Rocky Boy’s Land
1930’s |
|
34 | 1940's |
|
34 | Nicklason: Jeralyn’s Notes re:
land and water documents |
|
34 | Tiller Res. Inc. – Historical
Study…Priority Date…Water Right 1860- 1916 |
|
34 | Alan Parker Reports
Parker Report/Park III Social Cost-Benefit Anal. & Eval.
of Econ Loss at Cheyenne River
|
|
35 | Dornbush: Drafts – Damages
Assessment… 8/24/94 |
|
35 | HKM Technical
Workbook |
|
35 | HKM Correspondence |
|
35 | HKM: Proposals, Contracts &
Invoices |
|
35 | HKM
A) HKM Report/Rocky Boy’s MR&I Incremental Const Analysis;
B) HKM Report/Rocky Boy’s/North Central MT Regional Water Supply System:
Contract For Engineering Services 6m414.105; C) HKM Report/Riparian Areas; D)
HKM /Research for Legal Subcommittee; E) HKM/By-Pass Release Schedule
Settlement Process Rocky Boy’s Settlement; F) HKM/Water Right Claim W210806; G)
Rocky Boys Post and Pole Plant Dioxin Evaluation
|
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35 | HKM
A) Draft Proposal for Engineering Study & Environmental
Assessment of Rocky Boy’s Rural Water Supply System (2 copies); B) Missouri
River Paleo-Channel as a Sustainable Source of Supply for Irrigation Use
|
|
35 | HKM
A) HKM: Reports; B ) HKM: Reports; C) HKM Reports/draft
admins. Working draft
|
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35 | HKM
A) HKM: Reports; B ) HKM: Reports; C) HKM Reports/draft
admins. Working draft
|
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36 | HMK
Yvonne Knight’s Working Files
|
|
36 | A Historical Study of the
Chippewa Cree 1860-1916 |
|
36 | Tiller Res., Inc.
A) Estab. Priority Date for a Reserved Water Right…; B) Rocky
Boy Res. Post 1916 Water Rights & Usage (empty folder); C) Tiller Research
Inc.: Proposals, Contracts & Invoices; E) Anthropological Study…A History
of Joint Migrations, Water and Land-Use By The Assiniboine, Cree, Chippewa and
Métis in the Northern Plains from Pre-Historic Times to 1879
|
|
36 | HKM Report/Appraisal Level
Study |
|
36 | HKM: Work Drafts |
|
37 | HKM
A) (EPA) Final Report: RB Post and Pole Site: B) RB Post and
Pole Plant…Final Trial Burn Rpt., v1 of 4; 10/10/95: C) RB Post and Pole
Plant…Final Trial Burn Rpt., v2 of 4; 10/10/95
|
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37 | HKM-EPA reports documenting
cleanup by U.S. (1 of 2)
A) RB Post & Pole Plant…Final Trial Burn Rpt., v 3 of 4;
10/10/95; B) RB Post & Pole Plant…Final Trial Burn Rpt., v 4 of 4;
10/10/95; C) EPA Final Reports: OSC Report; D) EPA Final Reports: Closeout or
termination report; E) EPA Final Reports: Chippewa Post & Pole Site
|
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37 | HKM
A) HKM: Appraisal Level Irrigation Water Plan; B) HKM: Post
& Pole Plant Dioxin Evaluation; C) HKM: Miscellaneous Reports 1. North
Central Montana Regional Water System Feasibility Study (2 copies) 2.
Reconnaissance Ground Water Study for Water Rights Negotiations 3. Groundwater
Evaluation of the Madison Limestone (3 copies)
|
|
37 | untitled
A) A Historic Study of the Mescalero Apache Tribe 1848-1883;
B) Water Rights Investigation Rocky Boy Indian Reservation Montana
|
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37 | Morrison-Mairele
Reports
A) Morrison-Maierle: Phase I, Inventory of Water Resource; B)
Water Resources Evaluation – Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, Montana Phase I
November 1974
|
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38 | Dornbusch
Spiral Bound: Draft & Confidential, Attachments To Damages
Assessment for the Rocky Boy’s Reservation Water System, prepared for the
Chippewa Cree tribe, Nik Carlson, David M Dornbusch & Company, Inc. August
1994.
Copies of documents and letters from 1908-1949, re:
disposition of military reservation of Fort Assiniboine; letter from Frank
Linderman;
|
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38 | Dornbusch
A) Secondary Impacts from the Proposed Settlement Agreement
(draft); B) Spiral Bound: Preliminary Analysis Framework for Determining
Historic Irrigation Damages; C) Dornbusch: Draft List Legal Res. Group Res.
Topics…; D) Dornbusch: Misc. Reports and Drafts
|
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38 | Consultants
Draft: Attachments to Damages Assessment for the Rocky Boy’s
Reservation Water System
|
|
38 | Dornbusch: Damages
Reports
Appendices to Damages Assessment; Preliminary Analysis
Framework for Determining Historic Irrigation Damages; Damages Assessment;
Preliminary Damages Assessment; Miscellaneous documents (all spiral
bound)
|
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39 | Nicklason - Rocky Boy’s Water
Rights, 1900-1860’s |
|
39 | Nicklason - Vic
Martino |
|
39 | Water Rights
Nicklason: Proposals, contracts & invoices; B) Nicklason:
Reports, 1920s Land Documents: Abstract of Titles, Hill County; C) Nicklason:
Tribal Resolutions, 1928-1953 Transcriptions, verbatim, of the Tribal Council
meetings. Discourse between John Courchane, Mr. Shotwell, Mr. Liggett, Charley
Mosney, John Parker, Ind, Day Child, Shorty Youngboy, Samat, Chief Goes Out,
Dan Sadler, W. Morrisette, Fine Bow, Wolf Child and others. Questions posed by
Elders on many issues; D) Nicklason: Reports
|
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39 | Water Rights
Nicklason: Historical Research, 1930s (some 1920s); Letters
detailing the Indian Reorganization Land Acquisition
|
|
39 | Water Rights
Nicklason: Historical Research, 1940s, 50s, 60s; Land exchange
documentation
|
Series XI: Attorney Notes and Reports, circa 1995-1998Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
40 | B. Sheldon research memo re: 1997
Legislation addressing water Permitting and changes Cause No. 080 |
|
40 | untitled
A) Negotiation Research; B) General Research – 1878 20 US Stat
145; C) State Land Transfer; D) Settlement Research; E) General Research
|
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40 | Treaties and Statutes pertaining
to MT Indian Reservations |
|
40 | Review of Historical Docs. By J.
DeCoteau |
|
40 | Handwritten notes (on legal
tablets)
Attorney Notes: Albeita 2. Attorney Notes: Luebben 3. Attorney
Notes: General Notes 4. Attorney Notes: Damages Research 5. Attorney Notes:
Anderson 6. Attorney Notes 7. Attorney Notes.
not digitized
|
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41 | Attorney Notebooks
A) Rocky Boys Settlement Compact Tribal Legal/Technical
Working Draft – 12/16/96 Volume 1 – Yvonne Knight; B) Rocky Boys Settlement
Compact Tribal Legal/Technical Working Draft – 12/16/96 Volume 1 – YTK Notes
RE: Articles I - III; C) Rocky Boys Settlement Compact Tribal Legal/Technical
Working Draft – 1/05/97 Volume 1 – Yvonne Knight
|
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41 | Working Notebook –
1995 |
|
41 | untitled
Compact – Tribe’s/State’s Versions B) Compact – Tribe &
State Comments 11/96
|
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41 | Phase II
Tribes’ Revisions – Draft 4/20/98; B) Legal Counsel’s
Revisions 6/9/98
|
|
42 | Kim J. Gottschalk
A) Rocky Boys Water Rights Miscellaneous – Kim J. Gottschalk;
B) Rocky Boys Water Rights Ground Water Research – Kim J. Gottschalk
|
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42 | Kim J. Gottschalk
A) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights On Reservation Claims – Kim J.
Gottschalk; B) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Joint Pipe – Kim J. Gottschalk; C)
Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Research Memos – Kim J. Gottschalk
|
|
42 | Kim J. Gottschalk
A) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights History Papers – Kim J.
Gottschalk; B) Rocky Boy Water Rights IHS System – Kim J. Gottschalk
|
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43 | RB’s Phase I – YTK’s Working
Notebook - 1997 |
|
43 | Yvonne’s Working Notebook – Kim’s
Copy |
|
43 | Legal Working Group research for
the North Central/Rocky Boy’s Regional water Supply System – April 18, 1997
File Copy |
|
43 | Water Rights Compact |
|
43 | Compacting Tribal Legal/Technical
Working Draft – 12/16/96 |
|
43 | Tribal Negotiating Team Meeting
December 17-20, 1996 Federal Documents, Yvonne Knight |
|
43 | Task Force Materials |
|
43 | Research by Sean Cogley on
Priority Dates and Beneficial Use |
|
43 | Bear Paw Resources Alliance
|
|
44 | Research/Resource Mediation
A) Research/Resource Mediation – Montana Compact Commission;
B) Research/Resource Mediation – N. Cheyenne Information; C) Research/Resource
Mediation – N. Cheyenne Water Rights Compact; D) Research/Resource Mediation -
Public Hearing 1993
|
|
44 | Fact Finding Report of the
Federal Negotiating Team for Settlement of the Reserved Water Rights of the
Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation
(3 copies)
|
|
44 | untitled
A) Rocky Boy’s Legislative Notebook – Yvonne Knight, February
1998; B) Materials for Washington, DC Meetings – Yvonne Knights, December 7-10,
1998; C) 1/26-28/99 Washington, DC Meeting; D) Rocky Boy’s Legislative Notebook
– Kim Gottschalk
|
|
44 | untitled
A) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Settlement – Background Documents;
B) Team Briefing Papers re: Background of Indian Water Rights; C) Land Claims;
D) WAPA Authority Statutes
|
|
44 | untitled
A) Municipal, Rural and Industrial (MR&I) Water Supply
System Needs Assessment Prepared for the Bureau of Reclamation US Dept of
Interior by HKM Engineering January 1996 (3 copies); B) Municipal, Rural and
Industrial (MR&I) Water Supply System Needs Assessment Prepared for the
Bureau of Reclamation US Dept of Interior by HKM Engineering Preliminary Draft
September 1996
|
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44 | Constitution & Bylaws of the
RB |
|
45 | Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky
Boy’s Reservation Tribal Negotiation Committee/Federal Issues
Notebook
loose notebook
|
|
45 | Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Issue
Papers
loose notebook
|
|
45 | Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Federal
Negotiations Notebook – Volume I
loose notebook
|
|
45 | Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Federal
Negotiations Notebook – Volume II
loose notebook
|
|
45 | Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Working
Notebook – 2/97
loose notebook
|
|
45 | RB/s Phase II – Sample Compacts
and Court Information
loose notebook
|
|
45 | Rocky Boy’s Water Rights – Indian
Water Rights Settlement Acts & Compacts
loose notebook
|
|
45 | Drafts - Ad Hoc Bills
loose notebook
|
|
45 | Oglala Sioux Tribal Environmental
Review Code
loose notebook
|
|
45 | Rocky Boy’s Water Rights
Settlement Compact Legal Working Group Draft 1/3/97; Revised
1/31/97 |
|
45 | Rocky Boy’s Water Rights
Settlement Compact Tribe’s Proposed Amendments of 2/12/97 To Final Compact of
2/6/97 |
|
45 | Rocky Boy’s Water Rights
Settlement Compact Final Amendments to Compact of 2/26/96 |
Series XII: Legal Proceedings, 1990sReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
46 | Extra Copy of Mot. In Limine
& Sum Judg – File #2 |
|
46 | Discovery - Revisions to
Interrogatories
A) YTK Revisions to Interrogatories, Correspondence; B) SB
Revisions to Interrogatories, Correspondence
|
|
46 | Draft Discovery 5 |
|
46 | Draft Discovery 4 |
|
46 | Draft Discovery |
|
46 | Draft Discovery |
|
47 | Legal Proceedings, Volume
I
In the Water Courts of the State of Montana Upper & Lower
Missouri River Divisions, Native American Rights Fund
|
|
47 | Legal Proceedings, Volume
II
In the Water Courts of the State of Montana Upper & Lower
Missouri River Divisions, Native American Rights Fund
|
|
47 | Legal Proceedings, Volume
III
In the Water Courts of the State of Montana Upper & Lower
Missouri River Divisions, Native American Rights Fund
|
|
47 | Legal Proceedings, Volume
IV
In the Water Courts of the State of Montana Upper & Lower
Missouri River Divisions, Native American Rights Fund
|
|
47 | Legal Proceedings, Volume
V
Rocky Boy’s Water Rights Adjudication Legal Proceedings
(130241) In the Water Courts of the State of Montana Upper & Lower Missouri
River Divisions WC-2000-01, Native American Rights Fund
|
Series XIII: Litigation, 1990sReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
48 | Technical Report Compiled for the
Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact
Commission, Compact Settlement Between The Montana Reserved
Water Rights Compact Commission and the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy’s
Reservation and the United States
|
|
48 | Motion In Limine and Supporting
Brief; Motion To Approve Compact and for Summary Judgment Dismissing Objections
and Supporting Brief |
|
48 | Sample State Court
Documents |
|
48 | Discovery - Final Interrogatories
for Objectors |
Series XIV: Settlement Material, 1996Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
49 | Settlement Material
A) Rocky Boy Water Rights: Tribal Response to State’s
Counteroffer, 7/8/94; B) Rocky Boy: Settlement Material – Settlement Workbook;
C) Rocky Boy Confidential Fact Finding Sheet
|
|
49 | Settlement Material
A) Missouri River Reports (empty); B) Rocky Boy: Basin
Settlement; C) Rocky Boy: Reserved; D) Rocky Boy: Miscellaneous; E) Rocky Boy:
Interested Parties
|
|
49 | Negotiations
A) Drafts; B) Tribe Settlement Draft; C) Meetings
|
|
49 | Other
A) Rocky Boy Water Rights: Other (Pembina Judgement Fund
Claim)
|
|
49 | Materials for Rocky Boy Tribal
Negotiation Mtg. Oct 9-11 1996 |
|
49 | Settlement
A) Settlement Compact Working Draft 4/29/96; B) Settlement
Compact Working Draft 4/5/96; C) Binder: Tribal Legal/Technical Work Groups,
Working Draft for April 23/24 Meeting 4/22/96
|
|
49 | Settlement Compact Working Draft
5/7/96 |
|
49 | Rocky Boy Water Rights Settlement
Working Draft 5/10/96
clipped papers
|
|
49 | Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy
Reservation Settlement Workbook Tribal Response to State’s
Counteroffer
binder
|
|
49 | Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy
Reservation Settlement Workbook Tribal Response to State’s
Counteroffer
binder
|
Series XV: Miscellaneous, 1930s-1990sReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
50 | Land Acquisition Records: not
sorted by year |
|
50 | Land Acquisition
Records
1934; 1935; 1936; 1940
|
|
50 | Consultants
A) Albers & James: Proposals, Contracts & Invoices
Rocky Boy’s Water Rights; B) Albers & James: 1985 Reports
|
|
50 | Research
A) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights –Montana Law: Water Court
Proceedings B) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights –Montana Law: McCarren Amendment C)
Rocky Boy’s Water Rights –Montana Law: Gen. Stream – Jurisdiction Over Indian
Water Rights D) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights –Montana Law: Water Court rules/Case
law E) Rocky Boy’s Water Rights –Montana Law: Law Review Articles F) Rocky
Boy’s Water Rights –Montana Law: Miscellaneous information G) Rocky Boy’s Water
Rights- Montana Law: General Stream – Water Court decrees
|
|
50 | Research
Montana Law: Title 85 – Montana Water Statutes
|
|
50 | Research
Pick Sloan/T. Little Axe
|
|
51 | untitled
A) Miscellaneous Statutes; B) Research/Legal Memos; C) Tribal
Information: Miscellaneous
|
|
51 | untitled
A) Rocky Boy’s Historical Documents:
Cree-Assiniboin-Chippewa-Metis Territorial Use & Occupancy in Montana
1830-1882; B) Rocky Boy’s Historical Documents: Eli Guardipee’s Story; C) Rocky
Boy’s Historical Documents: Historical Index; D) Rocky Boy’s Historical
Documents: Historical Summary; E) Rocky Boy’s Historical Documents: Summary
Review of Historical Documents
|
|
51 | Miscellaneous Extra
Copies |
|
51 | Land Acquisition
Project |
|
51 | HKM Well Logs |
|
51 | HKM Well Logs |
|
51 | Montana Law: State Water
Statutes |
|
52 - Oversized | Miscellaneous Loose
Documents
Examples of documents include: U.S. War Department; Department
of the Platte Records, General Correspondence, January – April 1865, District
of Iowa, SC 927, Montana Historical Society Library; E.g. Handwritten letter
from Frank Burke to his father, 1882
|
|
52 - Oversized | Tiller Exhibits
Newspaper Excerpts – MT State Historical Society: A Historical
Study of the Chippewa- Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana;
Archival Documents
Examples of documents include: A) Montana Historical Society,
The Valier Valerian, May 8, 1933 Newspaper Articles; B) Montana News
Association Inserts, April 30, 1934; C) Ft, Assiniboine Correspondence,
1888-1904, Montana Historical Society Library; January 11, 1889, MICRO 54, U.S.
Army
|
Series XVI: Maps, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
53 | Maps: Historical,
1-99
A) Resource/Articles, Map: Rocky Boy’s; B) Rocky Boy’s
Historical Documents; C) Resource/Articles, Map: Ft. Assiniboine; D) Maps:
Historical, 1-99
|
|
53 | Maps: Dept. Of Interior, 100
series |
|
53 | Maps: Morrison-Maierle, 200
series |
|
53 | Maps: Stetson Engineering, 300
series |
|
53 | Morrison-Maierle: Phase II,
Present & Future Water Req., 1979 |
|
53 | HKM Report/Riparian
Areas |
|
53 | Appendices to Compact |
|
53 | A History of the RB Reservation
by Thomas Wessel |
|
53 | Maps: HKM & Associates, 400
series |
|
53 | Maps: Alternative water diversion
plans, 500 series |
|
53 | Maps: Other, 600
series |
|
53 | Maps: Blank maps, 700
series |
|
53 | Loose Misc Maps |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Water resources development--Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana
- Water rights--Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana
Corporate Names
- Federal Negotiating Team for the Rocky Boy's Reservation
- Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission
Geographical Names
- Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana
Other Creators
-
Corporate Names
- Native American Rights Fund