Olivas v. Board of National Missions of Presbyterian Church

DONOFRIO, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment quieting title and declaring a trust in approximately 100 acres of land in the Presbytery of Phoenix, an Arizona Corporation. The land is part of the settlement known as Guadalupe, Arizona, near the cities of Phoenix and Tempe.

As background it would serve us to quote with the author’s permission from a manuscript, not yet published, condensing a history of the Guadalupe Yaquis:

“The real history of Guadalupe village also began on May 1, 1910. At that time a considerable group of Yaqui Indians were living approximately a mile and a half…