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National Geographic : 1982 Nov
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present-day New Mexico. The aggressive wanderers soon surrounded the Hopis. Though their villages were clustered on the First, Second, and Third Mesas, the Hopis used vast stretches of adjacent territory for hunting,gathering, grazing their sheep, and religious purposes. The problem of Hopi-Navajo conflict fell to the U. S. government after the Mexican War of 1848. But authorities did little to prevent the Navajo influx, even after designating separate reservations for each tribe in the late 1800s. In this century the federal government has legislated the land dispute, principally through the partitioning of a joint-use area in 1977. But tensions remain, with the Hopis pressing their claims on the basis of historic precedence. DRAWNBYJAMESE. McCLELLAND, JR., ANDCOMPILEDBYMARGUERITEB. HUNSIKER,NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC ARTDIVISION 1982 In 1977 a U. S. districtcourt decision divided the joint-use area equally between the Hopis and the Navajos. But controversy lingers. The costly forced relocation of some 3,000 Navajos and 60 Hopis is expected to continue through 1986. The Navajos have dubbed it the Second Long Walk. The Hopis believe it is merely long-overduejustice. Hopi land B Navajo land E Navajo areas outside reservation O Boundary shrines of Hopi land a Hopi village - Dam 0KM 50 0 MILES 50 Inside the Sacred Hopi Homeland 611
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