Acknowledgements And Appreciation
First and foremost, this Study would not have been possible without the generous support of the State Bar of California’s Equal Access Fund.
Special Project Attorney Blake Atkerson (Osage Nation), Director of Innovation and General Counsel at Carbon A List, served as the Study’s lead researcher and drafter. Mike Godbe, the Directing Attorney of CILS’ Eastern Office, oversaw the project from its inception and contributed significant time and energy to its completion. Kia Mayther-Murdoch, Directing Attorney of CILS’ Central Office, contributed invaluable research and analysis related to California’s restored tribes. Dorothy Alther, CILS’ Legal Director provided review and editing of the Study.
CILS thanks Attorney Colin Cloud Hampson and his firm, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry, LLP, for his review of the substantive water law sections. Larisa K. Miller is an associate archivist at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and contributed valuable feedback to the Study’s History section. CILS further thanks the substantive review provided by an Indian Water Law expert who preferred to remain unnamed.
CILS would also like to acknowledge the law students from University of California Berkeley, University of California Los Angeles, and Stanford who provided exceptional research and assistance with cite checking: Zach Meeker, Adrian Gariboldi, Shara Burwell, Annika Krafcik, Sabina Neagu, Rebecca Sadock, Sean Sadler and Jeffrey Hamilton. Harvard Public Service Venture Fund fellow (and now CILS Staff Attorney) Jason Golfinos also contributed significant research and cite-checking assistance. CILS additionally thanks UCLA’s Tribal Legal Development Clinic and its Director, Professor Mica Llerandi, as well as the Native American Legal Assistance Program, a student-initiated legal services project at UC Berkeley School of Law, for their support with this project. CILS’ Senior Staff Attorney, Jay Petersen, also contributed valuable historical knowledge, feedback, and oversaw and organized law-student support.
CILS is grateful to its former staff and the authors of the original 1991 study, upon the shoulders of which this Study stands, namely Attorney Margaret Crow Rosenfeld.
Paula Eagle Tail, John Mosley, and Kim Yearyean at the Bureau of Indian Affairs assisted this effort by providing data sets, Title Status Reports, and Title Document Search Reports on California Trust land.
CILS thanks Aquaoso for its support and development of mapping related to Public Domain Allotments and adjacent water rights, and Carbon A List for its research and project management support. Smartbomb Creative Studio designed and developed a beautiful website to make the Study accessible.
Finally, CILS is grateful to Carl Avery, for his design of the California Indian Water Rights Study logo (as well as CILS’ logo).
