A bill under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives would ratify a 23-year-old treaty between the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe and the Navajo Nation.
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For more than 160 years, the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe has lived on Navajo Nation land, and for 23 years it has had a pending treaty that would give the tribe its own lands. It's long past time for Congress to ratify the treaty, the tribe's president testified.
WASHINGTON – For more than 160 years, the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe has shared land with the Navajo Nation, and for the past 23 years it has had a