Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge LOURIE. Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge NEWMAN.
LOURIE, Circuit Judge.
The San Carlos Apache Tribe (“Tribe”) appeals from a decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims, which dismissed the Tribe’s monetary damages [1348]*1348claim against the United States for an alleged breach of fiduciary duty relating to water rights in the Gila River. Because the Court of Federal Claims correctly granted the government’s motion to dismiss the Tribe’s claim for lack of jurisdiction, we affirm.
BACKGROUND
The San Carlos Apache Reservation borders the Gila River. Compl. at 1; see also In re the Gen. Adjudication of All Rights to Use Water in the Gila River Sys. & Source, 212 Ariz. 64, 127 P.3d 882, 885 (2006) (“Gen. Adjudication”). The river flows in a westerly direction across Arizona through semi-arid and desert lands requiring irrigation for successful agricultural or horticultural use. Gen. Adjudication, 127 P.3d at 885 n. 1. In 1925, in connection with a federal project to dam the Gila River and provide water to surrounding landowners, the United States filed a complaint on behalf of the Tribe and other parties in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona to obtain a declaration of water rights to the Gila River (the “Globe Equity Litigation”). See San Carlos Apache Tribe v. United States, No. 09-46, at 1 (Fed.Cl. Mar. 25, 2010) (“Op.”).
In 1935, following ten years of litigation, the district court approved a settlement among the parties; the consent decree is known as the “Globe Equity Decree” (“Decree”). Id. The Decree grants the Tribe 6,000 acre-feet of water from the Gila River each irrigation season for irrigating 1,000 acres of land. Id.; Answering Br. Def.-Appellee at A36, 2010 WL 3758727 (“Appellee Br.”). The Decree states that the parties have “concluded and settled all issues” pertaining to Gila River water rights. Op. at 1; see also Appellee Br. at A26. The Decree further states that the parties’ settlement is “embodied in and confirmed and made effective by” the Decree, which “defin[es] and adjudicates] the[] claims and rights” of the parties. Appellee Br. at A26. In addition, the Decree states:
That each and all of the parties to whom rights to water are decreed in this cause (and the persons, estates, interests and ownerships represented by such thereof as are sued in a representative capacity herein), their assigns and successors in interest, servants, agents, attorneys and all persons claiming by, through or under them and their successors, are hereby forever enjoined and restrained from asserting or claiming — as against any of the parties herein, their assigns or successors, or their rights as decreed herein — any right, title or interest in or to the waters of the Gila River, or any thereof, except the rights specified, determined and allowed by this decree, and each and all thereof are hereby perpetually restrained and enjoined from diverting, taking or interfering in any way with the waters of the Gila River or any part thereof....
Id. at A51.
The government filed another water rights claim on behalf of the Tribe in 1979. Op. at 2; see also Arizona v. San Carlos Apache Tribe, 463 U.S. 545, 558, 103 S.Ct. 3201, 77 L.Ed.2d 837 (1983). Eventually, this claim was consolidated with other parties’ water rights claims in the Gila River general stream adjudication (“Arizona Adjudication”) in Arizona state court. See Gen. Adjudication, 127 P.3d at 886. In 2001, certain parties to the Arizona Adjudication asserted that the Tribe’s water rights claims were barred by the res judi-cata effect of the Decree. Id. In response, the Tribe argued that it is not bound by the Decree, because it was not in privity with the United States in the Globe Equity Litigation. Id. at 896. The Tribe also argued that, in the litigation leading to the Decree, the United States as trustee for the Tribe sought water rights only under [1349]*1349the theory of prior appropriation; thus, the Decree does not cover the Tribe’s aboriginal water rights or federal reserved (“Winters ”) water rights. Id. at 888; see also Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564, 576-77, 28 S.Ct. 207, 52 L.Ed. 340 (1908); A. Dan Carlock, Law of Water Rights and Resources § 9:39 (2010).
The matter was appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court, which in 2006 declined on the basis of comity to consider the Tribe’s argument that the Decree is not binding on the Tribe. Gen. Adjudication, 127 P.3d at 901. In essence, the court held that the proper forum for challenging the interpretation and enforcement of the Decree was the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, not Arizona state court.1 Id. at 900-01. The Arizona Supreme Court further held that the Decree resolved all of the Tribe’s water rights, under all theories, and thus precludes any further claim by the Tribe to the waters of the Gila River. Id. at 895. The Arizona Supreme Court noted that it “expressed] no opinion as to what other remedies, if any, might be available to the Tribe for the Government’s allegedly inadequate representation.” Id. at 901 n. 21.
On January 23, 2009, the Tribe filed a complaint in the United States Court of Federal Claims for monetary damages. The Tribe alleged that “[t]he United States’ inadequate representation and failure to secure and protect the [Tribe’s] aboriginal and federal reserved water rights under the Decree for a permanent Tribal homeland constitutes a serious breach of fiduciary duty which it owed to the [Tribe].” Compl. at 4. The Tribe asserted that its claim against the United States for monetary damages did not become ripe until the 2006 decision of the Arizona Supreme Court. Id. at 18.
The government filed a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, arguing, inter alia, that the Tribe’s claim is barred by the six-year statute of limitations set forth in 28 U.S.C. § 2501. Def.’s Mot. to Dismiss at 1. The Court of Federal Claims granted the government’s motion to dismiss. Op. at 3. The court held that the Tribe’s claim against the government accrued in 1935 upon entry of the Decree and that it was therefore barred by the six-year statute of limitations. Id.
The Tribe timely appealed from the court’s decision to dismiss its claim. We have jurisdiction over final judgments of the Court of Federal Claims pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(3).
Discussion
The statute of limitations provided by 28 U.S.C. § 2501 is jurisdictional in the Court of Federal Claims. John R. Sand & Gravel Co. v. United States, 552 U.S. 130, 134, 128 S.Ct. 750, 169 L.Ed.2d 591 (2008); Hopland Band of Pomo Indians v. United States, 855 F.2d 1573, 1576-77 (Fed.Cir.1988) (“The 6-year statute of limitations on actions against the United States is a jurisdictional requirement attached by Congress as a condition of the government’s waiver of sovereign immunity and, as such, must be strictly construed.”). Whether the Court of Federal Claims possesses jurisdiction over a claim is a question of law subject to de novo review. Western Co. v. United States, 323 F.3d 1024, 1029 (Fed.Cir.2003). In reviewing the propriety of the court’s dismissal, we accept as true the facts alleged in the Tribe’s complaint. Catawba Indian Tribe [1350]*1350v. United States, 982 F.2d 1564, 1568-69 (Fed.Cir.1993).
An action brought under the Tucker Act is time-barred unless it is “filed within six years of the date that the cause of action accrued.” Fallini v. United States, 56 F.3d 1378, 1380 (Fed.Cir.1995); see also 28 U.S.C. § 2501 (2006) (“Every claim of which the United States Court of Federal Claims has jurisdiction shall be barred unless the petition thereon is filed within six years after such claim first accrues.”). A cause of action against the government has first accrued “when all the events which fix the government’s alleged liability have occurred and the plaintiff was or should have been aware of their existence.” Hopland Band, 855 F.2d at 1577 (emphasis omitted). Moreover, “[t]he question whether the pertinent events have occurred is determined under an objective standard; a plaintiff does not have to possess actual knowledge of all the relevant facts in order for the cause of action to accrue.” Fallini, 56 F.3d at 1380. This objective standard applies to the accrual of a claim for breach of fiduciary duty. See Jones v. United States, 801 F.2d 1334, 1335 (Fed.Cir.1986) (“Generally, an action for breach of fiduciary duty accrues when the trust beneficiary knew or should have known of the breach.”).
On appeal, the Tribe argues that the Court of Federal Claims erred by dismissing its claim. The Tribe asserts that its claim against the government accrued in 2006 following the decision of the Arizona Supreme Court, and is therefore within the six-year statute of limitations under 28 U.S.C. § 2501. The Tribe contends that, due to the government’s legally inadequate representation of the Tribe in the Globe Equity Litigation, it was not clear until 2006 that the Tribe was in fact bound by the Decree.
The Tribe also argues that the scope of the Decree remained unclear until the Arizona Supreme Court held that the Decree precluded any claims by the Tribe for additional water rights from the Gila River. The Tribe points out that the United States, as trustee for the Tribe, continued to support the Tribe’s claims for additional water rights until 2006, and the Tribe contends that it had no notice that the Decree precluded additional water rights. The Tribe thus argues that, as a beneficiary, it was entitled to rely on the government’s good faith and expertise without having to sue for money damages prior to the 2006 Decision. Further, the Tribe argues that because the government did not repudiate its role as the Tribe’s trustee until 2006, the Tribe’s claim for breach of fiduciary duty did not begin to accrue until then.
The government argues that the Tribe’s claim is untimely and barred by the statute of limitations. The government contends that a claim against a trustee for breach of trust accrues when the beneficiary objectively knew or should have known of the breach. The government points out that the basis of the Tribe’s present claim is the plain language of the Decree itself, demonstrating that the Tribe’s claim was “inherently knowable” to the Tribe in 1935. Appellee Br. at 11. The government further argues that the decision of the Arizona Supreme Court in 2006 did not fix the basis of the Tribe’s claim; at most, the decision clarified the possible damages associated with the claim. Therefore, the government argues, the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision did not affect whether the Tribe knew or should have known that its claim existed.
We agree with the government that the Court of Federal Claims lacked jurisdiction over this case because the Tribe’s claim is barred by the statute of limitations. The Tribe’s complaint asserts jurisdiction pursuant to the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1491(a)(1). As noted above, an action brought under the Tucker Act is [1351]*1351time-barred unless it is filed within six years of the date that the cause of action accrued. The central question in this case is when the Tribe’s claim for breach of fiduciary duty accrued. We conclude that the Tribe’s claim accrued in 1935 upon entry of the Decree. As we shall explain, our conclusion is compelled by the plain terms of the Decree and is consistent with the Tribe’s own concessions in its complaint and appellate brief.
It is objectively evident that all of the events that fixed the government’s alleged liability and entitled the Tribe to institute an action against the government occurred upon entry of the Decree in 1935. The Tribe’s claim is based on the unsatisfactory water rights to which the government stipulated in the Decree. Specifically, the Tribe asserts that it was inadequately represented because the United States failed to obtain aboriginal or federal reserved water rights. Compl. at 18-19. However, the terms of the Decree plainly and objectively indicate which water rights the Tribe did and, importantly, did not receive following the settlement of the Globe Equity Litigation. The Decree does not expressly grant any aboriginal or federal reserved water rights to the Tribe, and, as the Tribe acknowledges, the Decree plainly identifies the Tribe as represented by the United States in the Globe Equity Litigation, grants the Tribe a total of 6,000 acre feet of water rights, and includes a provision in Article XIII stating that “each and all of the parties to whom rights to water are decreed in this cause ... are hereby forever enjoined and restrained from asserting or claiming ... any right, title or interest in or to the waters of the Gila River, or any thereof, except the rights specified, determined and allowed by this decree.” Appellee Br. at A51. Accordingly, viewed under an “objective standard,” Fallini, 56 F.3d at 1380, the Tribe knew or should have known that the terms of the Decree precluded the Tribe from seeking additional Gila River water rights.
The Tribe further contends that the government’s inadequate representation and its resulting breach of fiduciary duty arose from a “severe conflict of interest” due to the government’s representation of multiple parties in the Globe Equity Litigation. Compl. at 15. The facts supporting the alleged conflict of interest, however, were similarly apparent from the text of the Decree, which, viewed objectively, plainly indicated that the United States represented multiple parties in the Globe Equity Litigation. As of 1935, therefore, the Tribe was objectively on notice of the accrual of its claims against the government.2
It is also evident from the Tribe’s complaint and appellate brief that the basis for its claim in this case is the language of the Decree itself. For example, the Tribe’s complaint acknowledges that the government’s alleged breach of fiduciary duty was apparent from the fact that the Decree provides for only 6,000 acre-feet for the Tribe:
The United States’ denial of any benefits to the Apaches from the San Carlos Project was part of a consistent pattern of discrimination against the Tribe, and breach of fiduciary duty, that would be demonstrated again in the Globe Equity proceeding when the United States stipulated to only 6,000 acre feet of Gila River water for the Tribe.
Compl. at 10.3 This is further apparent from the Tribe’s appellate brief, which con[1352]*1352cedes, for example, that the government’s “breach of trust is also manifested in many of the terms of the Decree that provided the Tribe virtually worthless limited irrigation rights while providing substantially greater more valuable rights to others.” Opening Br. San Carlos Apache Tribe at 30, 2010 WL 2603457 (“Appellant Br.”).
The Tribe also asserts that its claim arises from the government’s failure to stipulate to “substituted” water rights for the Tribe, despite having done so for other parties to the decree. The complaint states the following:
The U.S. also stipulated to substantial water rights to benefit the Upper Valley farmers under the Decree. These farmers upstream from San Carlos who had entered the Upper Valley lands starting in the early 1880’s, were provided a special “substituted” storage right under Article VIII of the Decree based on the amount of water stored each year in the San Carlos Reservoir....
The United States utterly failed to secure comparable water rights for the [Tribe]. It limited the Tribe to a mere 6,000 acre feet from the Gila, and made no similar effort to established [sic] “substituted” storage rights for the Tribe based upon water stored in the Reservoir, even though the Reservoir is located within the heart of the [Tribe’s] Reservation, and even though the United States was legally obligated under its fiduciary duties to act as the Tribe’s trustee in securing its federal reserved water rights under the Decree.
Compl. at 12. Thus, with regard to “substituted” water rights, the Tribe again concedes that the government’s alleged breach of fiduciary duty is apparent from the terms of the Decree. Regarding the alleged conflict of interest, the Tribe’s complaint acknowledges that the Decree itself indicates that the United States agreed to a negotiation that provided water rights for multiple parties including the Tribe. Id. at 15-16.
Finally, in connection with the Tribe’s allegation that the government breached its duty to adequately represent the Tribe in actions to obtain sufficient water rights to fulfill the Tribe’s aboriginal and federal reserved water rights, id. at 4, the complaint references a provision of the Decree granting the Upper Valley farmers (another party to the Decree) a limited right to purchase the Tribe’s 6,000 acre-feet for a specified sum. According to the Tribe, “[t]his agreement under the Decree ... clearly provides evidence beyond any reasonable doubt that the government officials representing the Tribe in Globe Equity never had any intention to secure aboriginal or federal reserved water rights for the Tribe under the Decree, as required under federal law.” Id. at 12-13. Again, consistent with our conclusion that the Tribe’s claim accrued in 1935, the facts supporting the Tribe’s claim arise from the terms of the Decree itself.
We are not persuaded by the Tribe’s arguments to the contrary. In support of its contention that its claim against the United States accrued in 2006, the Tribe relies on Samish Indian Nation v. United States, in which we stated that, “[i]f a necessary element to a claim must be established in a different forum, the claim will not accrue for § 2501 until that element is finally established in the other proceeding.” 419 F.3d 1355, 1369 (Fed.Cir.2005). The Tribe contends that, in 2006, the Arizona Supreme Court decided a “necessary element” to its claim, viz., [1353]*1353“that the Tribe was precluded from asserting its Winters and aboriginal water rights to the main stem of the Gila River.” Appellant Br. at 27.
Samish is not controlling in this case, however. In Samish, the Interior Department dropped the Samish in 1969 from its list of federally recognized tribes. In 1996, following a series of administrative and judicial proceedings, a federal district court ruled that the government’s refusal to federally recognize the tribe violated the Samish’s due process rights and the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”). Id. at 1362. In 2002, the Samish filed suit in the Court of Federal Claims seeking, inter alia, monetary damages for lost benefits resulting from the government’s wrongful refusal to accord federal recognition to the Samish during the period of 1969 to 1996. Id. at 1363.
In relevant part, the opinion of the Court of Federal Claims dismissed the Samish’s claims as time-barred under 28 U.S.C. § 2501, reasoning that the Samish’s claims accrued in 1969. Id. We reversed that part of the court’s decision and held that the tribe’s claim for retroactive benefits did not accrue until 1996, because “the district court’s determination [in 1996] provides a predicate ‘wrongful’ element in this action.” Id. at 1374. We pointed out that “[o]nly a district court, acting on a challenge under the APA, has authority to review the Secretary’s acts concerning the executive’s recognition determination.” Id. at 1369. Because the district court’s 1996 decision provided the “missing element,” id., to the Samish’s claim for damages against the government, the Samish’s claim accrued in 1996; its complaint filed in 2002, less than six years later, was timely.
Accordingly, in Samish, a money damages claim for improperly withheld federal recognition between 1969 and 1996 required, as a “necessary element,” a district court’s determination in 1996 that federal recognition was in fact improperly withheld during that period. In contrast, in the present case, the Tribe’s claim required no further legal determination beyond the Decree itself. As discussed above, the government’s alleged liability was objectively fixed in 1935 with the plain language of the Decree. Here, unlike in Samish, there was no “necessary element ... [to] be established in a different forum,” id., before the Tribe’s claim accrued under § 2501. The decision of the Arizona Supreme Court, rather than providing a necessary element to the Tribe’s claim, simply stated what was readily apparent from the face of the 1935 Decree.
More germane to the present case is Catawba Indian Tribe v. United States, 982 F.2d 1564 (Fed.Cir.1993). That case involved a dispute stemming from the enactment of the Termination Act in 1962. Catawba, 982 F.2d at 1567. As the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in 1986, the Act rendered the ancestral lands of the Catawba subject to South Carolina’s adverse possession laws. Id. at 1568 (citing South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe, Inc., 476 U.S. 498, 106 S.Ct. 2039, 90 L.Ed.2d 490 (1986)). The Catawba sued the United States in 1990, claiming, among other things, that the government, as trustee for the Catawba, breached its fiduciary duty to the Catawba. Id. Specifically, the Catawba alleged that the government failed to protect its land claim by breaching a duty to notify it of the legal effect of the Act. Id. The Catawba also asserted that its claim did not accrue upon enactment of the Act because, allegedly, the government incorrectly assured the tribe that nothing in the Act would affect the tribe’s claim to its ancestral lands. Id. at 1568.
The Court of Federal Claims dismissed the Catawba’s claim as time-barred, and [1354]*1354we affirmed. We held that the Catawba’s claim accrued in 1962 when the Act was adopted. Id. at 1570-71. We rejected the Catawba’s argument that its claim did not accrue until the Supreme Court’s ruling in 1986:
While the Supreme Court’s pronouncement in 1986 might be relevant to fixing the time when the Tribe subjectively first knew what the Act meant, it is fundamental jurisprudence that the Act’s objective meaning and effect were fixed when the Act was adopted. Any later judicial pronouncements simply explain, but do not create, the operative effect.
Id. at 1570. We further explained that the Supreme Court’s holding in 1986 that the Act was unambiguous on its face merely reinforced the conclusion that the Catawba’s claim accrued in 1962 upon enactment of the Act. Id.
Here, as the Tribe correctly asserts, the Arizona Supreme Court held in 2006 that the Tribe was bound by the terms of the Decree. However, like the Supreme Court in Catawba, the Arizona Supreme Court based its decision on the unambiguous language of the legal instrument fixing the alleged liability — the 1935 Decree. For example, in reviewing the language of the Decree and determining that the Tribe was bound by its terms, the Arizona Supreme Court, foreshadowing our present decision, stated that “[i]t is difficult to imagine more explicit language indicating that the Decree was intended to resolve all of the parties’ claims to the Gila River mainstem.” Gen. Adjudication, 127 P.3d at 895. As in Catawba, where we held that “the ‘damage’ was done when the Act became effective in 1962,” 982 F.2d at 1571, we hold here that the government’s liability was fixed upon entry of the Decree in 1935. Also, like the alleged incorrect assurances by the government in Catawba, the government’s continued support of the Tribe’s water rights claims following entry of the Decree does not alter the fact that the terms of the Decree objectively fixed the Tribe’s claim in 1935.
The Tribe further argues that its claim did not accrue until 2006 because, “[ujntil the full extent and permanency of harm is objectively known, a claim does not accrue.” Appellant Br. at 28. The Tribe thus contends that the decision in 2006 of the Arizona Supreme Court clarified for the first time the extent of the damages associated with the Tribe’s claim against the government for inadequate representation in the Globe Equity Litigation.
We disagree. We have “soundly rejected” the notion “that the filing of a lawsuit can be postponed until the full extent of the damage is known.” Boling v. United States, 220 F.3d 1365, 1371 (Fed.Cir.2000) (discussing United States v. Dickinson, 331 U.S. 745, 67 S.Ct. 1382, 91 L.Ed. 1789 (1947)). We recently confirmed this legal principle in Navajo Nation v. United States, where we stated that, “for purposes of determining when the statute of limitations begins to run, the ‘proper focus’ must be ‘upon the time of the [defendant’s] acts, not upon the time at which the consequences of the acts [become] most painful.’ ” 631 F.3d 1268, 1277 (Fed.Cir.2011) (quoting Delaware State Coll. v. Ricks, 449 U.S. 250, 258, 101 S.Ct. 498, 66 L.Ed.2d 431 (1980)). Even if, as the Tribe contends, the full extent of the damages associated with the government’s alleged breach of trust was not certain until 2006, all of the facts relevant to the Tribe’s claim were known as of 1935. See Catawba, 982 F.2d at 1572. We therefore disagree with the Tribe’s assertion that its claim accrued in 2006.
As a final matter, the Tribe argues that its claim is timely because it was not until 2006 that the United States “definitively repudiated its role of trustee” for the Tribe. Appellant Br. at 37. Because the [1355]*1355Tribe did not raise this argument before the Court of Federal Claims, it is waived on appeal. See Corus Staal BV v. United States, 502 F.3d 1370, 1378 n. 4 (Fed.Cir.2007) (treating as waived an argument made for the first time on appeal); Sage Prods., Inc. v. Devon Indus., Inc., 126 F.3d 1420, 1426 (Fed.Cir.1997) (“[T]his court does not ‘review1 that which was not presented to the district court.”).
However, even if this argument were timely presented, we do not find it persuasive. The Tribe refers us only to Shoshone Indian Tribe v. United States, 364 F.3d 1339, 1348 (Fed.Cir.2004), a case concerning the alleged mismanagement of trust funds by the United States as trustee for the Shoshone. In that case, we explained:
The beneficiary, of course, may bring his action as soon as he learns that the trustee has failed to fulfill his responsibilities. It is often the case, however, that the trustee can breach his fiduciary responsibilities of managing trust property without placing the beneficiary on notice that a breach has occurred. It is therefore common for the statute of limitations to not commence to run against the beneficiaries until a final accounting has occurred that establishes the deficit of the trust.
Shoshone, 364 F.3d at 1348 (citation omitted).
Relying on Shoshone, the Tribe argues that not until a trustee repudiates the trust and the beneficiary is aware of that repudiation does a claim for breach of fiduciary duty accrue. However, Shoshone involved a situation where the trustee allegedly breached its duty by mismanaging trust funds “without placing the beneficiary on notice that a breach has occurred.” Id. In such cases, a “final accounting” is necessary to put the Tribe on notice of the breach. Id. In the present case, in contrast, a “final accounting” was unnecessary to put the Tribe on notice of the accrual of its claim: the plain terms of the Decree were objectively sufficient to notify the Tribe of the alleged breach, as we have explained above.
We conclude that the government’s alleged liability for breaching its fiduciary duty to the Tribe was objectively fixed upon entry of the Decree in 1935, and that the Tribe “knew or should have known,” Jones, 801 F.2d at 1335, upon entry of the Decree that the government’s breach occurred. As we explained supra, our conclusion is compelled by the plain language of the Decree, which states in part:
“[t]hat each and all of the parties to whom rights to water are decreed in this cause (and the persons, estates, interests and ownerships represented by such thereof as are sued in a representative capacity herein) ... are hereby forever enjoined and restrained from asserting or claiming ... any right, title or interest in or to the waters of the Gila River, or any thereof, except the rights specified, determined and allowed by this decree.”
Appellee Br. at A51. Therefore, the Tribe’s claim is barred by the six-year statute of limitations set forth in 28 U.S.C. § 2501. Because the Tribe’s claim is time-barred, the Court of Federal Claims did not legally err by granting the government’s motion to dismiss the Tribe’s claim for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
Conclusion
For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims granting the government’s motion to dismiss the Tribe’s complaint.
AFFIRMED