Standing Rock Sioux Tribe - Department of Water Resources


Worcester v. Georgia  –  Year Published: 1832
MARSHALL, C.J. This cause, in every point of view in which it can be placed, is of the deepest interest.

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Winters v. United States  –  Decided January 6, 1908
APPEAL from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to review a decree which affirmed a decree of the Circuit Court for the District of Montana, enjoining a diversion of the waters of Milk river. Affirmed.

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United States v. Winans  –  Decided May 15, 1905
APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Washington to review a decree dismissing a bill to enjoin any obstruction of the fishing rights in the Columbia river, secured to the Yakima Indians by the treaty of 1859. REVERSED and REMANDED for further proceedings.

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United States v. New Mexico  –  Decided July 3, 1978
The United States, in setting aside the Gila National Forest from other public lands, held to have reserved the use of water out of the Rio Mimbres only where necessary to preserve the timber in the forest or to secure favorable water flows, and hence not to have a reserved right for aesthetic, recreational, wildlife-preservation, and stockwatering purposes.

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United States v. Adair  –  Decided November 15, 1983
In 1975 the United States filed suit in district court, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. & 1345 (1976), for a declaration of water rights within an area whose boundaries roughly coincide with the former Klamath Indian Reservation. The suit named as defendants some 600 individual owners of land within the former reservation. The Klamath Tribe intervened as a plaintiff and the State of Oregon as a defendant.

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The General Adjudication of all rights to use water in the Big Horn River System and all other sources, State of Wyoming   –  Decided June 14, 2002
The appellants own lands within the Big Horn River System and claim federal reserved water rights as a result of their acquiring properties from Indian allottees.

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Phelps Dodge Corporation v. United States  –  September 22, 2000
Whether an interlocutory decision of the Arizona Supreme Court establishing a rule of state water law to be applied in an ongoing general stream adjudication effected a judicial taking of petitioners' property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

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Jones v. Meehan  –  Decided October 30, 1899
APPEAL from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota in favor of the plaintiffs in a suit to quiet title to lands claimed under conflicting leases from an Indian chief.

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County of Okanogan, Wa. v. National Marine Fisheries Service  –  October 29, 2003
Petitioners challenge conditions imposed by the United States Forest Service in two special use permits that authorize the permit holders to use ditches on land in the Okanogan National Forest to convey water.

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Choctaw Nation v. United States  –  November 15, 1886
Appeals from the Court of Claims. *2 There are two appeals in this case, -- one by the Choctaw Nation, and the other by the United States, -- from a judgment rendered by the court of claims in favor of the former, for the sum of $408,120.32. Jurisdiction of the cause was conferred upon that court by the provisions of an act of congress approved March 3, 1881, (21 St. at Large, 504,) entitled 'An act for the ascertainment of the amount due the Choctaw Nation,' as follows:

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