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P.S. DELORIA*  Indian Natural Resource Issues in an Orderly
System          Indian tribes will be posing-and facing-a number
of issues in the future having to do with land and natural
resources. A few tribes have unresolved claims to ownership of
land now claimed by others. Many tribes have not yet fully
established the measure of their water rights. Tribes are asking
for a share of the power generated by hydroelectric projects on
their former lands. Tribes will acquire land both on and off
reservations. Tribal efforts to protect hunting and fishing
rights on and off reservations will continue and intensify as
use of the resources by non-Indians increases. And tribes will
press for continued access to sacred sites throughout their
traditional areas and to protect these sites from development.
Like all Indian issues, Indian natural resource issues are
characteristically viewed either as just like other issues,
manageable in exactly the same w