The Hopi Tribe, Cross-Appellee v. James G. Watt, Secretary of the Interior, Cross- and the Navajo Tribe, in Intervention-Appellee. Ivan L. Sidney, Etc., Cross-Appellee v. Peterson Zah, and William French Smith, Attorney General of the United States, Defendant- Cross-Appellant

719 F.2d 314 The HOPI TRIBE, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. James G. WATT, Secretary of the Interior, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Cross- Appellants, and The Navajo Tribe, Defendant in Intervention-Appellee. Ivan L. SIDNEY, etc., Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. Peterson ZAH, * Defendant-Appellee, and William French Smith, Attorney General of the United States, Defendant- Appellee, Cross-Appellant. Nos. 82-5648, 82-5649, 82-5679 and 82-5680. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted April 15, 1983. Decided Oct. 25, 1983. Scott C. Pugsley, Boyden, Kennedy & Romney, Salt Lake City, Utah, for plaintiff-appellant, cross-appellee. Martin W. Matzen, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees, cross-appellants. Louis Denetsosie, John A. MacKinnon, Window Rock, Ariz., for defendant in intervention-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Before SCHROEDER and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges, and EAST, ** District Judge. SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge. 1 In 1974 Congress passed the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act, Pub.L. No. 93-531, 88 Stat. 1712 (1974). The Act provided a mechanism for partitioning reservation land…