| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Native Waters: Contemporary Indian Water Settlements and the Second Treaty Era. By Daniel McCool. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002. xvi, 237 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8165-2227-8.)

Since the end of the 1970s, seventeen water settlements have been negotiated between the federal government and Indian tribes within the American West, and twenty-five tribes are currently at the negotiating table. These agreements translate paper rights into actual rights by quantifying Indian claims—as much to protect the water supply of non-Indians as to provide additional "wet water" to the reservations. In this timely, well-written, and thoughtful study, one of the leading political scientists of federal water policies in the West, Daniel McCool, argues that these negotiations represent "the second treaty era." The first treaty era extended from the 1860s into the 1930s, a period when Indians were forced to give up most of their land. The second era focuses on water.

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