SEKAQUAPTEWA v. MacDONALD

No. 76-3223.

591 F.2d 1289 (1979)

Abbott SEKAQUAPTEWA, Chairman of the Hopi Tribal Council of the Hopi Indian Tribe, For and on Behalf of the Hopi Indian Tribe, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Peter MacDONALD, Chairman of the Navajo Tribal Council of the Navajo Indian Tribe, For and on Behalf of the Navajo Indian Tribe, Defendant, Emmett Tso and Faye Tso, Applicants Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

February 26, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Miller (argued), Tuba City, Ariz., for applicants intervenors-appellants.

John S. Boyden (argued), of Boyden, Kennedy, Romney & Howard, Salt Lake City, Utah, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before DUNIWAY and CHOY, Circuit Judges, and EAST, District Judge.


CHOY, Circuit Judge:

Emmett and Faye Tso, members of the Navajo Tribe, appeal from the district court's denial without prejudice of their motion to intervene in the instant case.1 We affirm.

I. Statement of the Case

This suit is one brought by the Hopi Tribe against the Navajo Tribe and is intended to settle a long-standing dispute over certain lands declared an Indian...

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