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became apparent even in Washington, and with the signing of a 

 treaty of peace on June 1, 1868, the Navaho were allowed to return to 

 their former lands (map 3) .*^ 



Map 3. — Successive additions to the Navajo Reservation, 1869-1934. A, Treaty 

 of June 1, 1868 ; B, Executive Order of October 29, 1878 ; C, Executive Order 

 of January 6, 1880 ; D, Executive Order of December 16, 1882 ; E, Executive 

 Order of May 17, 1884; F, Executive Order of April 24, 1886; G, Executive 

 Order of January 8, 1900 ; H, Executive Order of November 14, 1901 ; /, Execu- 

 tive Order of May 15, 1905, and Act of March 1, 1933 ; J, Executive Orders of 

 November 9, 1907, and January 28, 1908 ; K, Executive Order of December 1, 

 1913 ; L, Executive Orders of January 19, 1918, and May 23, 1930, and Act of 

 June 14, 1934 ; M, Act of May 23, 1930 ; N, Act of June 14, 1934. (After Under- 

 hill,1956, p. 149.) 



For over a year after their return to the homeland, they remained in 

 desperate straits. Those whose homes lay within the boundaries of 

 the new reservation returned to find the ruin resulting from the war 

 and 4 years of neglect. The remainder settled more or less at random 



■ii The original reservation area established for tlie Navaho in the Treaty of 18G8 was 

 less than one-quarter the size of the territory they occupied prior to Fort Sumner. 

 Thereafter, the reservation was gradually increased in size from 3.5 million acres in 

 1868 to its present area of about 15 million acres. See Underhill, 1956, p. 149, and 

 also the inside cover of Kluckhohn and Leighton, 1951, for maps showing the growth of 

 the reservation since 1868. The acreage is discussed in Young, 1954, p. 86. 



