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U.S. government spends billions on water rights settlements with Native American tribes

The federal government has now spent more than $8.5 billion on water rights settlements with Native American tribes. Tribes have to give up a lot in return, and hundreds more have yet to settle.

Kaleb Roedel of the Mountain West News Bureau reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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