Many know that the removal and relocation of Indigenous peoples from traditional lands is a part of the United States colonial past, but few know that in an expansive corner of northeastern Arizona the saga continues. The 1974 Settlement Act officially divided a reservation established almost a century earlier between the Dine (Navajo) and the Hopi, and legally granted the contested land to the Hopi. To date, the U.S. government has relocated between 12,000 and 14,000 Dine from Hopi Partitioned Lands, and the Dine both there and elsewhere continue to live with the legacy of this relocation....
Many know that the removal and relocation of Indigenous peoples from traditional lands is a part of the United States colonial past, but few know that...