Here is the opinion in … oh, we’ll call it Johns v. United States.
An excerpt:
Under the particular and complicated facts of this case, there is no practical benefit to placing issue remarks on Claimants’ water rights stating that lands within their place of use were once within a former Indian reservation. Although the remark is historically accurate, it serves no useful purpose. Waters in Basin 41QJ are not physically available for diversion or use by the Blackfeet Nation, and any aboriginal water rights once in existence there have been terminated. The Blackfeet Tribe sued and recovered compensation for this termination. The Blackfeet have not made a claim to water from Basin 41QJ in their Compact with the State of Montana and the United States. The Tribe has not objected to the water rights in this case. No injury has been demonstrated to the Tribe or its members if these or any water rights in Basin 41QJ are diverted in accord with their actual priority dates. The United States concedes the priority dates of Claimants’ water rights are valid and enforceable against other non-Indian water rights.