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United States Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, Federal District Judge James A. Walsh of Tucson, Arizona, and Federal District Judge Leon R. Yankwich of Los Angeles, California. noted in its opinion that the conflicting claims of the two Indian tribes to the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, presented what has been characterized as "the greatest title problem of the West." Today's decision brings to a close the trial of the lawsuit commenced four years ago in the Federal Court in Arizona on behalf of the Hopi Indians by Salt Lake City Attorneys John S. Boyden, Allen H. Tibbals and Bryant H. Croft, members of the law firm of Boyden, Tibbals, Staten & Croft. The case involved the ownership of a 2,500,000 acre Indian Reservation in Northeastern Arizona. This reservation, created in 1882 by Executive Order of President Chester A. Arthur, was set aside "for the use and occupancy of the Moqui (Hopi), and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon." The 16,000,000acre, oil-rich, Navajo Reservation now completely surrounds the Hopi Reservation, At stake in the case was the right to what is believed to be some of Arizona's richest, Atom-Age treasures of oil, gas, coal and other minerals. Development of these potentials has been blocked for years by conflict between the Hopi and Navajo Tribes over the ownership of these lands. At the outset of the case it was described as being possibly "one of the nation's most important Federal Court actions, in many decades." The Navajos, represented by attorneys Norman M. Littell and Joseph McPherson of Washington, D.C., have claimed title to all but 448,000 acres of the Resewation. The Hopi Indians have claimed that the Navajo Indians, having a reservation of their own, had no rights in the lands in question. Administrative efforts to resolve the conflicting claims have, for seventy-five years, met with frustrating failures. Finally, through the efforts of counsel for the respective tribes, Congress in July, 1958, passed a law creating a special three-judge Federal Court and authorized the filing of a lawsuit to determine the ownership of these lands. The actual trial of the case at Prescott, Arizona, lasted four
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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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