Executive Order 1774: Reserving Lands in New Mexico for Use of Navajo Indians

Executive Order 1774: Reserving Lands in New Mexico for Use of Navajo Indians

May 6, 1913

White House

It is hereby ordered that Section 10 of Township 17 North, Range 13 West, of the New Mexico Principal Meridian in New Mexico, be, and the same is hereby reserved from all forms of settlement, entry or other disposal, and set aside for use of Navajo Indians living in the vicinity of Crownpoint, New Mexico, provided that this withdrawal is subject to any prior valid right or claim of any persons to the land withdrawn, and to New Mexico coal land withdrawal No. 6, by Executive Order of May 18, 1911.

Woodrow Wilson