Another tribal nation trapped in South Dakota has had enough.
As South Dakota's GOP congressional delegation rail against federal oversight, pollution, dead soils, habitat destruction and a regressive tax structure are wreaking havoc on cropland values in the chemical toilet laying waste to sacred ancient watersheds.
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David Ganje, a Rapid City lawyer who handles water-rights cases but is not involved in the Crow Creek case, said tribes have been hesitant to sue for water rights. That is partly because of a 1952 federal law known as the McCarran Amendment, which pushed many water-rights disputes from federal courts down to state courts, where Native Americans often fear they will not receive fair treatment. But he said tribes should generally do more to assert their water rights.Read more at the new and improved Rapid City Journal.
As South Dakota's GOP congressional delegation rail against federal oversight, pollution, dead soils, habitat destruction and a regressive tax structure are wreaking havoc on cropland values in the chemical toilet laying waste to sacred ancient watersheds.
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