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The following articles, which reside within the archives of the NATIVE-L mailing list, relate to the difficulties that have been ongoing for some time in an area in Arizona now jointly occupied by the Navajo and Hopi peoples. The term "land dispute" is used here within quotes here because some would question whether there is in fact a dispute between the Navajo and Hopi peoples in the matter of the "joint use" land. There have been suggestions made that the U.S. government has portrayed the matter as a dispute between the Navajo and Hopi peoples in order to obscure the matter of both peoples being the victim of corporate mining interests and that the "dispute" is simply a fabrication of the government intended to distract attention from the corporate interests that have a stake in resource extraction in the area. Clearly there is some dispute, and it is about land and how that land should be used and who has what rights to what on that land. NativeNet takes no position on whether or not there is any certain sort of disagreement between any particular parties.
Please do not rely on the URLs of individual articles within the NATIVE-L archives, as they are subject to change without notice. This page ("http://bioc09.uthscsa.edu/natnet/archive/nl/navajo-hopi.html") will be kept updated, however, so you can safely refer to it.
Navajo-Hopi "land dispute" updates from the Dineh Alliance
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