Unsettling Indian Water Settlements: The Little Colorado River, the San Juan River, and Colonial Enclosures

In the United States, indigenous nations are settling water claims for access to the continent's surface waters. This legal‐political process transforms the nature of indigenous water use to conform with logics of quantification that are foundational to western water laws. This article critiques Indian water settlements by highlighting the inherent limitations and marginalisation of indigenous water rights in two recent examples of water...