| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2 | The History Cooperative

*Tribal Water Rights: Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics*. Edited by John E. Thorson, Sarah Britton, and Bonnie G. Colby. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. xii + 291 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.)
Most of the thirteen essayists in this book, including its three author-editors, are or were directly involved in tribal water rights cases. This is the book's great strength. Their experiences bring out the aspects of the subject that are necessary to understand its complex points of action and decision. Abstract principles can be obtained from books on theory; this one lays out how theory is applied.	1
The book has fourteen essays allocated to four parts: "State-Tribal-Federal Relations," "Quantification," "Settlement," and "Management." The first part is the most theoretical and least original or useful. Part three, "Settlement," directly overlaps the three author-editors' 2005 book, Negotiating Tribal Water Rights (Tucson, 2005), and important sections of part two, "Quantification," and part four, "Management," also address negotiation and settlement of disputes. Indeed, settling rather than litigating is the central theme of both books. However, the newer book has many important additions, and it is a better technical resource.	. . .

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