Hopi Tribe ask governments for help in land exchange efforts

Flagstaff, Ariz. • The Hopi Tribe has reached out to local governments for help as it attempts to finalize a land transfer under an agreement between the tribe and the Navajo Nation.The Hopi Tribe was promised nearly 23 square miles (60 square kilometers) of state trust land south of Interstate 40 and east of Flagstaff in a 1996 agreement approved by Congress in a dispute over overlapping boundaries of Hopi and Navajo reservation lands, the Arizona Daily Sun reported last week.Recent effort