深度解析GMAT阅读经典难题-【印第安水权】( 九 )

This fact, however, has not barred application of the Winters doctrine. What constitutes an American Indian reservation is a question of practice, not of legal definition, and the pueblos have always been treated as reservations by the United States.

(b.美国印第安属地的问题更多考量的是实际情况,而不是法律问题。)

This pragmatic approach is buttressed by Arizona v. California (1963), wherein the Supreme Court indicated that the manner in which any type of federal reservation is created does not affect the application to it of the Winters doctrine.

(c.另一Arizona案件也是支持上述说法。)

Therefore, the reserved water rights of Pueblo Indians have priority over other citizens` water rights as of 1848, the year in which pueblos must be considered to have become reservations.

(总结:因此,印第安部落水权优先于公民水权。)