Nation

Navajo Nation (Diné)

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Official name: Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah
Recorded status: Listed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (91 FR 4102, January 30, 2026)
Region: Southwest

In the record

The atlas records 3 broken treaty promises involving Navajo Nation (Diné): Navajo: the Long Walk and Bosque Redondo (1864-1868), ended by the 1868 treaty, Bears Ears National Monument (2016-2026): designation, reductions, restoration and the July 2026 action (context, not a treaty claim) and Navajo water: the 1868 treaty reserves water but creates no duty to secure it (Arizona v. Navajo Nation, 2023). 6 court cases turned on their rights: Williams v. Lee, McClanahan v. Arizona State Tax Commission, United States v. Wheeler and 3 more.

This nation carries the history of Navajo (Diné) in the treaty record.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

Treaty under documented pressureExecutive orderNot statedShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

The record over time

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

Names

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Self-names

DinéNavajo

Official names

Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah

Land recorded as ceded

This nation carries the history of peoples named in Royce’s schedule. Their record:

Navajo (Diné) About 24 million acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894

Treaty under documented pressure24 million

Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.

5 cessions. Follow Navajo (Diné) through the years on the map

Who is doing the work

Working with these nations

Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Nation government Tribal co-management and protection of Bears Ears National Monument Give on their site Website

Native legal and land defense, nationally

Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website

Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.

Connections

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Named in 9

Land recorded in this nation’s name 4, matched by the Forest Service, under review

Organizations that work with this nation 2

Carries the treaty history of 1

Navajo (Diné)

Governed by 1

Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition

Sources

americanindianmagazine.org/story/naal-tsoos-saniunclassified
Juanita, or Asdzáá Tł’ogi (Diné [Navajo]), posing with Indian agent William F.M. Arny
federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2026/01/30/2026-01899.htmlprimary record
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah
Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the BIA, 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026)primary record
Listed in 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026).

Research notes

Name as printed in V040/V041.

Kind: Nation
Confidence: Medium
Nation review: Not yet reviewed by this nation

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