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Landless San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe could finally get its own homeland

Lillie Boudreaux Cronkite News//June 8, 2023//

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Landless San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe could finally get its own homeland

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The San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe is the only federally recognized tribe in Arizona without its own treaty lands. Tribal President Johnny Lehi Jr. said a proposal to grant lands the tribe would "make us stronger in our self-governance." (Photo by Lillie Boudreaux/Cronkite News)

Landless San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe could finally get its own homeland

Lillie Boudreaux Cronkite News//June 8, 2023//

For more than 160 years, the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe has shared land with the Navajo Nation, and for the past 23 years it has had a treaty pending...

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