Legal Opinion
Dewakuku v. Cuomo
District Court, D. Arizona
Decided July 14, 2000No. CIV.A.98-00415-PCT-PPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
YOUNG, District Judge. 1
I. Introduction
Serena Dewakuku (“Dewakuku”) is a member of the Hopi Indian Tribe. The Hopi Indians five on a reservation of nearly 4000 square miles in northeastern Arizona. Anthropologists believe that the general area in northern Arizona upon which the Hopi Reservation now stands has been occupied for as long as 10,000 years and continuously occupied for at least 2000 years. 2
Beginning as early as 500 A.D., Hopi settlements were built on the tops of three mesas. 3 Dewakuku currently lives in the pueblo of Kykolsmovi on Third Mesa, very near the…
2Cases cited49 opinions
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- United States v. MitchellSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Cannon v. University of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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- United States v. KingSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by7 opinions
- United States v. Orville MilkCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2002
- Serena Dewakuku v. Mel R. Martinez, Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 2001
- Garreaux v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2007
- Brian A. Ex Rel. Brooks v. SundquistDistrict Court, M.D. Tennessee · 2000
- Garreaux v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. South Dakota · 2008
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