Arizona: Broken Rainbow - Historic Documentary On Government Relocation Of 10,000 Navajo ...

Arizona: Broken Rainbow - Historic Documentary On Government Relocation Of 10,000 Navajo Indians In Arizona   On December 1974 Congress passed Public Law 93-531 "The Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act". It authorized the partitioning of the Joint Use Area (JUA) and established the Navajo-Hopi Indian Relocation Commission (NHIRC) which moved Navajo people from the reservation lands. Countless of the most traditionally and culturally intact Dineh (Navajo) people were forced to re-locate to cities...

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