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HEALING v. JONES

Civ. No. 579 Prescott.

174 F.Supp. 211 (1959)

Dewey HEALING, Chairman of the Hopi Tribal Council of the Hopi Indian Tribe, et al., Plaintiff, v. Paul JONES, Chairman of the Navajo Tribal Council of the Navajo Indian Tribe, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court D. Arizona.

May 25, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boyden, Tibbals, Staten & Croft, John S. Boyden, Salt Lake City, Utah, for plaintiff. Fennemore, Craig, Allen & McClennen, Phoenix, Ariz., of counsel.

Norman M. Littell, Charles J. Alexander, Washington, D. C., for defendant Jones, Jos. F. McPherson, C. Lawrence Huerta and Walter F. Wolf, Jr., Window Rock, Ariz., Laurence Davis, Phoenix, Ariz., of counsel.

Jack D. H. Hays, U. S. Atty., Phoenix, Ariz., Floyd L. France, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant William P. Rogers, Atty. Gen.

Before HAMLEY, Circuit Judge, and YANKWICH and WALSH, District Judges.

HAMLEY, Circuit Judge.

This action was instituted in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona on August 1, 1958, to obtain a determination of the rights and interests of the Navajo Tribe, Hopi Tribe, and individual Indians to the area set aside by Executive Order of December 16, 1882. The instituting of such an action was authorized by Congress by the Act of July 22, 1958, Public Law 85-547, 85th Cong., 1st Sess., 72 Stat. 402. Pursuant to that...

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