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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect
persist in their harsh, dry environment and attract others to them in periods of serious drought was the skill with which the Hopis developed especially adapted plants and their ability to coax them into high yields. Gregory explained: For those people, who are capable of running 100 miles without stops, it is a matter of small moment that pine boughs must be brought from the San Francisco Mountains, wild tobacco and flax from the Little Colorado, and wild berries from the highlands along the San Juan. By the last quarter of the 19th Century, the Navajo had come from their country east of traditional Hopi homelands and had begun to interfere with Hopi freedom to use their resources without interruption. While John was assigned to do Indian litigation in the office of the U.S. Attorney, the Indian Reorganization Act was passed in 1934, a minority of the Hopi voted to be incorporated under that litigation, and with the help of Oliver LaFarge, a writer who was working with the Hopi at the request of John Collier, the "Constitution and By-laws of the Hopi Tribe, Arizona" was developed in 1936, and was approved by the Secretary of the Interior December 19, 1936. (John later noted that the Hopi Constitution was written by a non-lawyer - and showed it.) The Hopi Tribal Council established by the Hopi Constitution failed to function about 1940, after a somewhat shaky start. It was too much to ask of sovereign villages to all pull in the same direction. No village was willing to subordinate its authority to the tribal council indefinitely. While on a trip to Washington, D.C., in 1950, Hopi representatives were told that the most effective way for them to press their land claim was to reactivate the Hopi Tribal Council, secure the services of an attorney, and submit the claim. Paul and Steve made the following observations: The Hopi Tribe was politically disadvantaged by the fact that it had never really functioned as a tribe, but rather as a
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| Title | John S. Boyden: three score and ten in retrospect |
| Creator | Boyden, Orpha Amanda Sweeten |
| Subject | Boyden, John Sterling, 1906-1980; Democratic Party -- Utah; Coalville (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Life story of John S. Boyden, including his experiences in Coalville, Utah, law practice, participation in the Utah Democratic Party, family life, church involvement, and advocacy for Indians. |
| Source | Boyden |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | text |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College Press |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/boyden.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1144.cpd |
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