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Show Goshute THE UTES W E S H A L L R E M A I N : U TA H I N D I A N C U R R I C U L U M G U I D E 88 signed an agreement with the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, which oversaw the construction of a water project to use Utah's share of the waters of the Colorado River. Under the agreement, the Ute tribe gave permission for the Central Utah Project to draw water from the reservation, in exchange for building a wa-ter project on the reservation so that the Utes would be able to utilize their water rights. Af-ter decades of neglecting the Ute portion of the project, in 1992 the Ute Indian Rights Settlement (which was part of the larger Central Utah Proj-ect Completion Act) gave the tribe money for agricultural, recreational, wildlife, and economic development. This attempt to make up for the loss of the Ute portion of the Central Water Project also serves as a recognition of the govern-ment's failure, once again, to live up to its legal obligations to the Ute nation. For an overview of other contemporary land issues the Ute tribe faces today, see the student research articles. |