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Executive Order—Withdrawal of Land for Suppai (Havasupai) Indians

November 23, 1880

EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 23, 1880.

It is hereby ordered that the following described country, lying within the boundaries of the Territory of Arizona, viz: Beginning at a point in the middle of Cataract Creek, 2 miles below the lowest fall north of the settlement of the Suppai Indians; thence due east 2½ miles; thence in a southerly, direction 12 miles to a point 2½ miles due east of the middle of said creek; thence due west 5 miles; thence in a northerly direction 12 miles to a point 2½ miles due west of the middle of said creek; thence due east 2½ miles to the place of beginning, to embrace the settlements and improvements of the Suppai Indians, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement, and set apart for the use and occupancy of said Suppai Indians, and the Executive order dated June 8, 1880, withdrawing from sale and setting apart a reservation for said Indians, is hereby revoked.

R.B. Hayes

SOURCE: Kappler, Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, US GPO, 1904, p 809

Rutherford B. Hayes, Executive Order—Withdrawal of Land for Suppai (Havasupai) Indians Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371288

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