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Land dispute about jurisdiction, not denial of rights

Editor:

Contrary to the recent opinion expressed by Leonard Benally in your paper on Wednesday, April 25, the Supreme Court’s recent decision rejecting the Manybeads appeal is not about denying Navajo resisters their religious freedom or the right to live on supposed ancestral homeland. Considering that they are trespassing on Hopi land, they are fortunate they were able to remain at Big Mountain for so long. It is about time that the Hopi are guaranteed the right to fully enjoy the use of our own land, instead of having to continually wrangle with trespassers who are reminded time and again that Big Mountain rightfully, legally and spiritually belongs to the Hopi.

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