The Establishment of The Hopi Reservation and Some Later Developments Concerning Hopi Lands (Pamphlet)

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Author: Jones, Volney H. (1903-1982)

Publisher: Plateau, Museum of Northern Arizona

Pub Date: 1950

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  One long fold from top to bottom, running through the entire 8 page pamphlet.  Head and foot of spine each have approx. 1″ tear/split at spine edge.  On page 22 (pagination is from the original Plateau article) there is a misprinted line and previous owner used ink to show where the correction should be.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Offprint.  Reprinted from Plateau, Vol. 23, No. 17, October 1950.  The Moqui (now known as the Hopi) Reservation was established by President Chester A. Arthur in December, 1882.  The reservation, as set aside in the executive order, was approximately 70 miles north to south, and approximately 55 miles east to west.  Early on, after the reservation was established, the Hopi faced problems of “white” encroachment (read Mormon) and the establishment of the AT&SF railroad, as well as Navajo encroachment onto Hopi grazing lands and water supply.  In 1909 the US Geological Survey found evidence of over 8 billion tons of coal underground in the Navajo and Hopi reservations, and their reservation boundaries were “redrawn.”  The 1996 Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act was intended to solve the problems–of relocation, access to sacred sites, land use, mineral ownership.  As if.