By David Brugge - Arizona Department of Water Resources

in the W w n Copie wash somc 12 miles above Noen Copie. They
dam the wash and irrigate therefrom.
I mct with these Navajocs telling them they must return
to their Reserve or take lands in severalty. I talked long
with them through their headman "&usher".
Th2y do not want to return to the Reserve neit3er do thcy
incline to take lands in severalty but claim all the land wcst
to the San Francisco blountains. but will accept the Little Colo-
rai3 as their western boundary. I saw large bands of fine Nava-
jo horses in the Little Colorado bottoms, wherr the stock # e m
told me, the Indians had often driven the stock mens cattle to
the west side of the river. They also seem to practically take
full psssession of the Moquies Reserve the same as their own,
and often (in the absence of the hioquis.) break into their houses
eat steal and carry away the food raised and stored by these
Pueblos. Both Whites and Pueblos tell me this. I asked the Nava-
jos in Council. about this. In reply they say, "We go to the Mo-
quis houses and get something to eat, and in return also feeF the
Moqui when he comes to their Piogan. Being also charged with
stealing his horses they say, "the Moqui works all the time in
the ground to raise food. He rider to his crop and turns his
Sorse loose and then digs several days in his crop, while his
horse wanders away, and then the Noqui says "The Navajo stole it".
Having now been on the East South and West sides, I think
fully half of the Navajos are off of their Reservation. And
doubt the &ility of their chiefs to get them back. - - - (Wal-
ton to CIA, 17 June 1868, NA, OIA, RG 75, LR, 15959/88)
It was about this time that Charley Atsidi purchased the land
that was later allotted to him and his relatives. The seller was a
Mormon named JohAdains. (Affidavit of Et-zit-tee, 1 Aug 1898, XA, OIA,
RG 75, L3, 29553/99, encl 21)
In the sumner of 1891, Atsidi was involved in a land dispute
with Lott Smith (Shipley to Smith, 2 SepC 1891, FO-15, p. 175). al-
though no details are known.
Troubles at Tuba City continued into the next year. John S.
Wayhugh, who had been sent to allot land to the Bopis on the Executive
Order of 1882 reported that Lott Smith had ploweddeyL t he crop of one
Hopi family and recommended that if Tuba City were,%o be off the Ressr-
vation that the Indians there be allowed to homestead, (Mayhugh to CIA,