Legal Opinion
Abbott Sekaquaptewa, Etc. v. Peter MacDonald Etc., Griffin B. Bell, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 15, 1978No. 77-1957PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUFSTEDLER, Circuit Judge:
This appeal is the latest episode in the long and bitter conflict between the Hopi and Navajo Indian Tribes over the division of reservation lands.
The dispute has its origins in an Executive Order of December 16, 1882, withdrawing 2,500,000 acres of land in northeastern Arizona from the public domain “for the use and occupancy of the Moqui [Hopi], and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon.” For many years thereafter, the Hopi and the Navajo asserted conflicting claims to the tract, and all attempts to resolve the…
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