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A lot of water (and money) has gone down the river since 1964 for the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe

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Another point this court documentation stipulates is that "The Government's long-term confiscation and deprivation of the use by the Chemehuevi Tribe of the Chemehuevi Reservation's twenty-one (21) miles of Colorado River shoreline for thirty-three (33) years without any payment to the tribe of compensation for the use, lease, and/or temporary taking of the shoreline and related assets, improvements and riparian rights, amounts to a taking of the tribe's property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment."

Another complaint made by this team of lawyers is that the Department of Interior failed to administer and manage trust lands and related assets, improvements, and riparian rights along the Chemehuevi Reservation's Colorado River shoreland "with the greatest skill and care required of a trustee; and the government failed to maximize the productive use of trust lands and natural resources along the Chemehuevi Reservation's Colorado River shoreline from 1946 until the present. "

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Samuel Vargo worked as a full-time reporter and editor for more than 20 years at a number of daily newspapers and business journals. He was also an adjunct English professor at colleges and universities in Ohio, West Virginia, Mississippi (more...)
 

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