United States of America, and Spokane Tribe of Indians, Plaintiff-In-Intervention-Appellant v. Barbara J. Anderson, James M. Anderson

J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

The United States of America appeals a district court’s determination that water rights appurtenant to certain reservation lands which passed out of trust status but which have subsequently been reacquired by the Spokane Tribe of Indians are entitled to a priority date as of the date of reacquisition by the Spokane Tribe. The Spokane Tribe also appeals, urging that the district court erred in holding that the State of Washington had regulatory jurisdiction over use of water by non-Indians on non-Indian land within the Spokane Indian Reservation. We affirm in…