The rights of Indians and tribes

The Rights of Indians and Tribes

Volumn , Issue , 2024, Pages 1-539

  Pevar, Stephen L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190077556.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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81. See Chris Coppola, Chandler Pays $43 Million for Tribe's Water, The Republic (Aug. 9, 2016), available at https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/chandler/2016/08/09/chandler-pays-43-million-some-gila-river-tribes-water/88317190/.
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88. See also Michelle Kay Albert, Obligations and Opportunities to Protect Native American Sacred Sites Located on Public Lands, 40 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 479, 487 (2009).
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98. Stacy L. Leeds & Lonnie R. Beard, A Wealth of Sovereign Choices: Tax Implications of McGirt v. Oklahoma and the Promise of Tribal Economic Development, 56 Tulsa L. Rev. 417 (2021).