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Navajo (Diné) · navaho · navajo · Diné · Navajo · Navajo (Dine) · DineNavajo (Diné)
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In the record
The United States made 3 treaties and agreements that name Navajo (Diné) as a party, from Treaty with the Navajo (Canyon de Chelly / Chuska Valley), 1849 to Executive Order creating the Hopi Reservation, 1882.
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 5 cessions of land from Navajo (Diné): about 24 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 2 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Navaho in New Mexico and Utah, ceded 1868 (area 519), about 24 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Bosque Redondo (Fort Sumner) with the Navajo, 1868.
Today, Colorado River Indian Tribes and Navajo Nation (Diné) carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.
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.
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
Names in treaties and records
Land recorded as ceded
- 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
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
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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Land recorded in this nation’s name 6
- Land of the Navaho in New Mexico and Utah, ceded 1868 (area 519)1868as named in the 1899 record
- Reservation of the Navaho in New Mexico (area 518)1868as named in the 1899 record
- Reservation of the Navabo in Arizona (area 608)1878matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Reservation of the Navaho in New Mexico (area 615)1880as named in the 1899 record
- Land of the Navaho in New Mexico, taken 1884 (area 658)1884as named in the 1899 record
- Land of the Navaho in Utah, ceded 1892 (area 655)1884as named in the 1899 record
Party to 3
Present-day governments that carry this history 2
Sources
- americanindianmagazine.org/story/naal-tsoos-saniunclassified
Juanita, or Asdzáá Tł’ogi (Diné [Navajo]), posing with Indian agent William F.M. Arny
Research notes
NARA Navaho. Endonym as printed in V040.
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