1894

Hopi petition against allotment

Arizona; Hopi people

Hopi leaders explained that dividing land into individual parcels contradicted their family and community arrangements. Their petition and resistance challenged the assumptions built into federal assimilation policy.

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Context / qualification

The petition documents Indigenous opposition in their own terms.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8

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