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David M. Brugge Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-770-BC
Abstract This collection contains David Brugge's research used to assist the Navajo Nation in their land claims, in particular the case, Healing vs. Jones, resulting from the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute. There is also material on the aftermath of the court ruling including post litigation negotiations, political solution, relocation, and resistance to relocation.
Dates: 1583-2009; Majority of material found within 1952-2009

Herbert J. Hagerman Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: 1960-021
Scope and Content Collection consists of a broad range of materials from Hagerman's tenure as an Indian Commissioner. Includes congressional hearings and bills, speeches, reports, government publications, minutes of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and annual reports of the Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the Board of Indian Commissioners, and the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association. Most of the materials concern the Pueblo and Navajo Indians and issues such as...
Dates: 1924-1932

Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Documents

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-442-BC
Scope and Content The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Documents, 1854-1984, are not a comprehensive body of material dealing with the land problem and relocation. Rather, they are composed of items collected by, and generated by, Jim Wright and Merlene DuBre in the course of documenting the plight of the refugees created by P.L. 93-531, the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974. For one thing, the chronological span is not nearly as broad as the title suggests; although the history of the dispute is well covered, the...
Dates: 1854-1984