Chester A. Arthur

Executive Order—Establishment of Moqui (Hopi) Reserve

December 16, 1882

[In Navajo Agency; occupied by the Moqui (Hopi) tribe; area 3,863 square miles.]

EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 16, 1882.

It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of Arizona lying and being within the following-described boundaries, viz, beginning on the one hundred and tenth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, at a point 36 degrees and 30 minutes north, thence due west to the one hundred and eleventh degree of longitude west, thence due south to a point of longitude 35 degrees and 30 minutes north, thence due east to the one hundred and tenth degree of longitude, and thence due north to place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from settlement and sale, and set apart for the use and occupancy of the Moqui and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 805

Chester A. Arthur, Executive Order—Establishment of Moqui (Hopi) Reserve Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371301

Simple Search of Our Archives