Parlow, Anita

Cover of pamphlet, "Resistance at Big Mountain: 8, 000 Navajos to be Forcibly Uprooted, " published by the Big Mountain Support Committee. (Box 1, Folder 2).

Navajo and Hopi have held equivocal rights to the same lands dating at least as far back as President Chester Arthur's executive order of 1882, which established the Hopi Indian Reservation. The executive order granted territory to the Hopis, but also permitted the settlement of other Indians on the lands. Navajo continued to move into the area. More than a century of controversy later, legislation and court cases have still not resolved the issue.

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