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The Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (ONHIR) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the U.S. Government.It is responsible for assisting Hopi and Navajo Indians impacted by the relocation that Congress mandated in the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974 [1] for the members of the Hopi and Navajo tribes who were living on each other's land.
The Navajo Reservation was established by the Treaty of 1868 [2] and encompasses over 27,413 square miles, expanding its area over three states. [3] The Hopi and Navajo tribes had "joint use" in the 2.5 million acre region in Arizona until 1963, when the federal government divided out 600,000 acres exclusively for use by the Hopi. [4]
In 1947, Secretary of the Interior, Julius Krug, at the request of President Truman, proposed a ten-year program to provide the Hopi and Navajo tribes with vocational training. In 1950, the Navajo-Hopi Law was passed which funded a program to help relocate tribe members to Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Denver and help them find jobs. In 1951 ...
The 1974 Act created the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation, which forced the relocation of any Hopi or Navajo living on the other's land. In 1992, the Hopi Reservation was increased to 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km 2 ).
While Navajo is the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. — bigger than 10 U.S. states — Hopi is small with villages that are the oldest, continually inhabited among all 574 ...
In 2022, of the 250 homeless people who died in Sacramento, six were Native American, according to coroner data. Soto, who is Navajo and Jemez Pueblo, said a possible solution could be supplying ...
The Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation V: 900: Bureau of Indian Affairs (Department of the Interior) and Indian Health Service (Department of Health and Human Services) VI: 1000–1099: Office of the Assistant Secretary, Indian Affairs (Department of the Interior) VII: 1200–1299: Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians ...
Adding another layer to the alternating time zones is a pocket in the southern end of the Hopi reservation that is Navajo Nation. Traveling more than 160 miles (258 kilometers) from northern Arizona through Tuba City, and back-and-forth from Hopi to Navajo, residents and tourists could cross time zones several times.