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Show the road to realization of our ultimate goal of equal opportunity and parity for the Navajo with their fellow American citizens cannot be too much longer. We believe that our Yearbook offers a sound basis for program evaluation and effective planning, closely attuned to the spirit and purpose of the Commissioner's Memorandum of April 12, 1956, and to the desires and aspirations of the Navajo Tribe. G. Warren Spaulding General Superintendent Navajo Agency 8. RESETTLEMENT ON THE COLORADO RIVER IRRIGATION PROJECT The Colorado River Indian Reservation located on the east side of the Colorado River south of Parker Dam in western Arizona, contains a large acreage of potentially valuable irrigation farm land. The Reservation was established by an Act of Congress in March of 1865, "for Indians of said river and its tributaries," and the development of an irrigation system commenced two years later, with the appropriation of $50,000. Progress has been slow, however, toward subjugation of the full agricultural potential, although in 1935 Congress authorized the construction of the Headgate Rock Dam at a cost of $4,632,775. On February 3, 1945, the Colorado River Tribal Council adopted an ordinance authorizing settlement of the Southern Reserve portion of the Reservation by other tribes of the Colorado River and its tributaries and, in the fall of the same year, 16 Hopi families accepted land assignments there. |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |