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Dividing the Sky
The Arizona Republic did a four-part series on the relocation of Native Americans. Months were spent visiting Navajo and Hopi reservations in northeastern Arizona and interviewing "some of the last remaining traditional Indians in the continental United States."
Tags: Navajo; hopi; reservations; federal relocation; federal aid; Native Americans; American Indians; land dispute
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Wrong side of the fence
In the latest of blows to Navajos from northeastern Arizona, 13,000 members have been forced to relocate after they found out they had been living on the side of the Navajo-Hope Joint Use Area owned by the Hopi tribe. As the deadline nears for the move, a thousand or so are refusing to move. This story traces the history of the region, and how Congress, the coal industry, and a lingering land dispute have led to the situation.
Tags: Navajos; Native Americans; minorities; relocation; joint use area
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Dark Days on Black Mesa A People Betrayed
Traditional Hopi settlements are threatened as their groundwater reserves are rapidly depleted by a multi-national coal company. A 1966 lease agreement between the tribe and Peabody Coal Co. was negotiated by an attorney many Hopi revered, John Boyden. Records and interviews now reveal that Boyden was representing Peabody at the same time he negotiated the coal lease on the Hopi's behalf. Many Hopi want Peabody to find another water source and have asked the U.S. Department of the Interior to intervene. Former Interior Secretary Stuart Udall is among those demanding that the federal government stop Peabody from using the groundwater.
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Land grab
Mother Jones investigation finds the land given to Anglo ranchers in a Hopi-Navajo land swap were appraised below market value. It was found that the ranchers sold the land at enormous profit, costing taxpayers at least $33 million, while Native Americans got land contaminated with uranium mining wastes.
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Sacramento Bee series describes the relocation of more than 10,000 Arizona Navajos by the U.S. government as part of the settlement of a land dispute between the Navajo and neighboring Hopis, Oct. 20 - 21, 1985.
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