This story is developing.
Update 5/9/26: Scroll down for more links.
Update 5/8/26: The denials have begun on Facebook. Read the documents for yourself people. Of course, they will deny it.
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Go to the St. Maries Gazette-Record website for this letter posted to the Opinion page:
https://www.gazetterecord.com/opinion/article_075ed09c-e101-4bc6-b924-de3c1f2b46f6.html or see below:
Go here for the ten-page Report from the McCroskey Territorial Agrarian Society:
Water Adjudication Report with Citations and Elaborations
We had less than a week to prepare this report. The opposition had months – over 3000 Exhibits! They held back releasing the Agreement until time was almost up. The final Court Decree is scheduled to be entered May 26th.
Coming Soon Completed Unabridged Report with Interlinear Commentary
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Go here for a copy of the Water Adjudication Agreement:
Go here for the Attorney General’s “Happy Face” Report. Remember, he does not represent the People. He is the lawyer for State Government and is tasked with law enforcement, not in protecting your rights:
Raul Labrador Press Release 3/5/26
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Go here to view the Idaho Supreme Court Decision upon which it relies:
https://savebenewahcounty.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2019-cda-adjudication-decision.pdf
Go here for the new draconian Coeur d’ Alene Tribal Water Supply Bank legislation that was introduced by Sen. Phil Hart and passed in the last legislative session. Notice how it “declares an emergency” and there is no severability clause:
Updated by JWS, 5/9/26
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Letter to the Editor 5/6/26
I have read the whole thing: The Water Rights Settlement with the CDA Tribe. It appears to be a pretext for the following:
1) Permanently indentures Tribal members on the reservation to a communal social and economic structure at the expense of private property rights;
2) Cedes by definition to the Tribe ALL private landholdings within the “external reservation boundaries”;
3) Creates a permanent income stream for the Tribe to continue land purchases inside and outside reservation boundaries, thus enabling Tribal expansionism at the expense of state resources in Benewah County and surrounding counties;
4) Guarantees the primacy of stone age cultural values for land use by placing “hunting, fishing, and gathering” over the necessities of a modern economy;
5) Places claims of Tribal antiquity over rights guaranteed by natural law, common law, and Constitutional law;
6) Establishes the Tribe with a rentier’s status over state citizens and creates legal precedence for the Tribe to use existing concessions by the State of Idaho to seize more, if not eventually all, private and public water rights;
7) Explicitly endorses the Tribal agenda of what appears to be a form of apartheid and ethnic cleansing by enabling “buy-out” and “relocation” programs for non-tribal members.Benewah County commissioners have been presumptuous to believe that they could represent their constituents on matters so fundamental to their property rights. They must rescind this agreement before the deadline of May 26th and submit it to the vote of the People in a referendum.
James Stivers
Email address: [email protected]
Message Phone: 208-875-9203
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For more on the Constitution of Communist China referenced in the report, go here:
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