Judge Affirms Denial Of Aid To Navajo Woman For Move From Hopi Land

Mealey's (July 5, 2017, 1:08 PM EDT) -- PRESCOTT, Ariz. — A member of the Navajo Nation is not entitled to receive relocation benefits to move from one tribe’s side of a divided reservation to her tribe’s side because she failed to show that she was a legal resident of the wrong side on the cut-off date established in the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act of 1974, an Arizona federal judge confirmed June 29 (Helen Laughter v. Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation, No. 16-08196, D. Ariz., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 101116)....