-1882 Indian Agent stationed in Keams Canyon headquarter, under the US War Department gets his own Indian reservation. It became to be known as the 1882 Excutive Order (means US President signed it), and the purpose was to have more control over Hopi Indians who were refusing American schooling and having too much intercultural connection with the Dineh.

-1930 Formerly the US War Department, the Interior Department under Secretary of Interior, John Collier, designed a policies that would break the Indians from their connection with the Earth. This law was called, Indian Reorganization Act (IRA), which was used to make Indians begin joining mainstream America. In Big Mountain and the rest of the Navajo Reservation, thousands of horses, cattle, sheep and goats were killed, and many resisters went to jail.

-1950 Black Mesa Coal Field had to be exploited but there was no BIA-Hopi Tribal Government and the Hopi Nation had no treaties with the US, so getting coal leases with the Hopis under the 1882 Reservation would be difficult. The BIA used Mormon interest in Hopi Land and found a Mormon Lawyer out of Salt City named, John S Boyden. John Boyden organized the first and illegal Hopi Tribal Council in 1955.

-1964 With John Boyden as an attorney for the "progressive" Hopis the District Courts announced "a land-dispute" and that, a small Hopi Reservation was defined. Peabody Coal Company out of St. Louis, ILL. was awarded mining leases for 54,000 acres of Black Mesa. Peabody's lease permit was issued soon after a Hopi Reservation was established. Now, it will look more legal to appear as the 1882 Reservation wasn't violated and that, the two tribes contracted with Peabody.

-1965-1970 John S. Boyden and the U.S. Interior Dept. secretary continued to coerced the ( illegal) Hopi Tribal Council to maintain a aly suit against the Navajo Tribal Government. Boyden and Interior Secretary, Stewart Uball ( Both Mormons0 felt that such lawsuit would help in the passage of the Partition and Relocation law that they design in the 1950's.

-1972 U.S. District Court ruled that it will be up to the U.S. congress to amend a law that would settle the question of land titles between the Navajoand Hopi tribes. The traditional Hopis opposed the court's decision, and they proposed against Los Angeles Water and Power's involvment in the interrest of Black Mesa coal fields. The traditional Hopi leaders asked the traditional spokes people to join them to save Black Mesa, and the "Navajo and Hopi Unity Committee" was formed.

-1974 Despite the powerful opposition from the "N&H Unity Committe", traditional Indain Alliance (based in Los Angeles, C.A.), Black Mesa Committee, and the American Indian Movment -- the U.S. Congress passed a revised version of Boyden's Partition / Relocation Law. It was so obvoios at that time to see the collabortion involved in the passage of this Relocation Law, by Mormon Interest energy companies ( Utah Internatonal & Peobody Coal), and major Southwestern states utility companies ( New Mexio & Arizona Public Service Co., Salt River Project, Phelps Dodge, L.A. Water & Power, and Southern California Edison).

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