...an Executive Order set apart 2,472,320 acres (3863 square miles) of land for the Moqui Reservation, for the use and occupancy of the Hopi and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior might designate. At that time someone with a ruler drew on a map a parallelogram which represented...

...approximately 2,500,000 acres in northern Arizona, set apart by Executive Order of December 16, 1882, for the use and occupancy of the Hopi and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior might see fit to settle thereon. The territory occupied by these Indians is largely arid, or at best...

...ago. When it was set aside by the President he said in the Executive Order that it was set aside "for the Hopi and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon." So what we now call the Hopi Reservation was set aside for the use...

...Executive order stipulated that this two and one-half million acre tract should be set up for the benefit of the Hopi and "such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon." Apparently, this qualification was used for the protection of the Navaho...

...Executive order stipulated that this two and one-half million acre tract should be set up for the benefit of the Hopi and "such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon." Apparently, this qualification was used for the protection of the Navaho...

...and Navajo Indians as to lands within an executive order reservation created December 16, 1882, for the Hopi "and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon," specifically discussed the Navajo Treaty of 1868. The court indicated...

...provisions of the bill will be dealt with in separate sections of this report. I. THE 1882 HOPI RESERVATION On December 16, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur...of the Department of the Interior drew a boundary line, reflecting the location of most of the Hopis, which the Navajos were forbidden to cross. The...

...provisions of the bill will be dealt with in separate sections of this report. I. THE 1882 HOFI RESERVATION On December 16, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur...years ; by 1930 there were 3,300 Navajos and by 1958, 8.800. Relations between the two tribes were often hostile. In 1891, officials of the Department of...

...alternative. However, in the event that it becomes the choice of Congress we recommend several amendments. I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND On December 16, 1882, President...of the Department of the Interior drew a boundary line, reflecting the location of most of the Hopis, which the Navajos were forbidden to cross. The...

...any rate, in 1882, President Arthur, by Executive Order, set aside 2. 5 million acres of this land for the use and occupancy of the Ho'pi and "such other Indians as the Secretary of Interior may see fit to settle thereon." There is evidence that the Order was hastily prepared and...