深度解析GMAT阅读经典难题-【印第安水权】( 六 )



④ 水权

(water rights)

:水权对于美国印第安人尤其重要。







文章逻辑结构



In Winters v. United States (1908), the Supreme Court held that the right to use waters flowing through or adjacent to the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was reserved to American Indians by the treaty establishing the reservation. Although this treaty did not mention water rights, the Court ruled that the federal government, when it created the reservation, intended to deal fairly with American Indians by reserving for them the waters without which their lands would have been useless.