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Subject: Judge Dismisses Suit On Hopi-Navajo Pact
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The story is submitted here by the Navajo Nation:

http://www.sltrib.com/020698/utah/21304.htm


                             Judge Dismisses Suit On Hopi-Navajo Pact

  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
      FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that
challenged a settlement of a century-old land dispute between the Navajo
and Hopi tribes. 
      U.S. District Judge Earl Carroll ruled Jan. 26 that he did not
have jurisdiction to rule
  whether the accommodation agreement was illegal because the case
involved two sovereign
  tribes and was ratified by Congress. 
      Eight Navajos living on a disputed area of the Hopi reservation
filed a suit last October
  challenging the settlement, which was signed into federal law by
President Clinton in 1996
  and allowed Navajos in the disputed area to sign 75-year leases with
the Hopi tribe. 
      The suit claimed the settlement was unfair because it didn't
provide for infrastructure
  improvements and limited Navajos living on the Hopi land ``to only
subsistence activities.'' 
      If the case isn't appealed, Hopi officials said the tribe can
ratify the leases with the 316
  Navajo families who last year agreed to live under Hopi jurisdiction
rather than be relocated.

      For the 28 families who refuse to sign leases and refuse to move,
Hopi officials said the
  deadline for to be off Hopi-partitioned land is Feb. 1, 2000.

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                Judge Dismisses Suit On Hopi-Navajo Pact

 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
     FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. --
 A federal judge has
 dismissed a lawsuit that challenged a settlement of a century-old
 land dispute between the Navajo and Hopi tribes.
     U.S. District Judge Earl Carroll ruled Jan. 26 that he did not
 have jurisdiction to rule whether the accommodation agreement was
 illegal because the case involved two sovereign tribes and was
 ratified by Congress.
     Eight Navajos living on a disputed area of the Hopi reservation
 filed a suit last October challenging the settlement, which was
 signed into federal law by President Clinton in 1996 and allowed
 Navajos in the disputed area to sign 75-year leases with the Hopi
 tribe.
     The suit claimed the settlement was unfair because it didn't
 provide for infrastructure improvements and limited Navajos living on
 the Hopi land ``to only subsistence activities.''
     If the case isn't appealed, Hopi officials said the tribe can
 ratify the leases with the 316 Navajo families who last year agreed
 to live under Hopi jurisdiction rather than be relocated.
     For the 28 families who refuse to sign leases and refuse to move,
 Hopi officials said the deadline for to be off Hopi-partitioned land
 is Feb. 1, 2000.


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