The tribes also claim that the state would be violating federal law by adjudicating the waterways in southeastern Oklahoma, court documents show.Įven before the water board voted Tuesday, tribal leaders issued a letter condemning the action and said that moving in such a direction would start a “generational fight that pits neighbor against neighbor and community against community on a scale that this state has never seen before.” The lawsuit filed by the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations in federal court claims the water rights in question are provided to them in treaties signed in the 1800s. Representatives of the Chickasaw Nation who attended the meeting Tuesday said they had no comment about the water board's vote. “In short, the tribes seek to have sole regulatory authority over all water in those 22 counties, to the exclusion of the state and the OWRB.” valid water rights comes from claims made by the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations, who claim in their lawsuit that their water rights and regulatory authority are ‘prior and paramount' to any water rights or regulatory authority claimed under State law in the 22 counties that make up southeastern Oklahoma,” state documents show.
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