Canyon de Chelly Administrative History

1. Verne E. Chatelain to Horace Albright, Mar. 10, 1933, NA, RG 79, NPS, Nat. Mon., C de C, Central Classified Files 1933-49, encl., pp. 4-5.

2. Charles Davis to Hubert Work, Sept. 3, 1924, NA, RG 75, OIA, Class. Files, Nay., 69601-1924-044.

3. Cammerer to Burke, Sept. 17, 1924, ibid.

4. Chatelain to Albright, Mar. 10, 1933, encl., pp. 8-9.

5. Hagerman to CIA, Dec. 16, 1924, NA, RG 79, NPS, Nat. Mon., C de C, Gen., 1923-34; Burke to Mather, Dec. 31, 1924, NA, RG 75, OIA, Class. Files, Nav., 69601-1924-044.

6. "Minutes of the Navajo Tribal Council held at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, July 7-8, 1925," NA, RG 75, OIA, Central Files 1907-39, Nav., 37534-1925-054.

7. Ibid.

8. "Extract from report of H. J. Hagerman, Commissioner to the Navajo Tribe, dated July 11, 1925," NA, RG 75, OIA, Class. Files, Nav., 69601-1924-044.

9. Merritt to Mather, July 24, 1925, NA, RG 79, NPS, Nat. Mon., C de C, Part 2; Cammerer to Merritt, Aug. 25, 1925, NA, RG 75, OIA, Class. Files, Nav., 69601-1924-044.

10. "A Proclamation," n.d., NA, RG 79, NPS, Nat. Mon., C de C, Part 2; Burke to Hagerman, Aug. 27, 1925, NA, RG 79, NPS, Nat. Mon., C de C, Part 2.

11. Burke to Hagerman, Aug. 27, 1925, NA, RG 79, NPS, Nat. Mon., C de C, Part 2.

12. Chatelain to Albright, Mar. 10, 1933, encl., pp. 11, 14.

13. Memo by Kidder and Morris, n.d., NA, RG 79, NPS, Nat. Mon., C de C, Part 2.

14. Ibid.

15. Merriam to Albright, Mar. 12, 1929, NA, RG 79, NPS, Nat. Mon., C de C, Part 2.

16. Albright to Merriam, Mar. 18, 1929, ibid.; Merriam to Albright, Mar. 19, 1929, ibid.

17. Burke to Albright, Apr. 23, 1929, ibid.

18. Rhoads to Albright, Mar. 4, 1930, ibid.

19. Hagerman to Rhoads, June 19, 1930, NA, RG 75, OIA, Class. Files, Nay., 69601-1924-044; Rhoads to Hagerman, July 1, 1930, ibid.

20. Despite Hagerman's statement, no evidence has been found that more than one earlier council voted in favor of the establishment of a national monument at Canyon de Chelly or even considered the matter.

21. "Minutes of the Eighth Annual Session of the Navajo Tribal Council held at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, July 7-8, 1930," NA, RG 75, OIA, General Services, 054-1929-34664 to 054-1931-35878, pp. 65-66.

22. Ibid., pp. 66-67.

23. Ibid., p. 67.

24. This name is written "Todechenie Cheschille" in the council minutes, but appears as "Toadin Chischilli" on a later petition. Sandoval et al. to Hunter, Oct. 8, 1930, NA, RG 75, OIA, Class. Files, Nav., 69601-1924-044. This later rendering, appearing also as "Tohglai Chischile" in a typescript of the signatures (ibid.), is closer to the name remembered by present residents of the canyons-To'ahedlinii Chiishch'ili, or "Curley-Haired Junction-of-waters Clansman." The council minutes transcription is misleading because it is very close to the name of the Todich'ii'nii or Bitterwater Clan.

25. "Minutes of the Eighth Annual Session of the Navajo Tribal Council," pp. 68-69.

26. Ibid., pp. 70-73; Navajo Tribal Council, Navajo Tribal Council Resolutions, 1922-1951 (Window Rock, Ariz., 1951), p. 40; See also NA, RG 79, NPS, Nat. Mon., C de C, 1923-34.

27. Sandoval to Hagerman, July 19, 1930, NA, RG 75, OIA, Gen. Serv., 39005-1930-044.

28. Hagerman to Sandoval, July 24, 1930, ibid.

29. Sandoval et al. to Hunter, Sept. 8, 1930, ibid.

30. Hunter to Hagerman, Sept. 19, 1930, ibid.

31. Hagerman to Hunter, Oct. 2, 1930, ibid.; Hagerman to CIA, Oct. 2, 1930, ibid.

32. Hunter to Hagerman, Oct. 10, 1930, ibid.

33. Patterson et al. to Hunter, Oct. 8, 1930, ibid.

34. Hunter to Hagerman, Oct. 10, 1930, ibid.

35. Scattergood to Hagerman, Oct. 16, 1930, ibid.

36. Hagerman to Nusbaum, Nov. 10, 1930, NA, RG 79, NPS, Nat. Mon., C de C, 1923-34.

37. Edmund B. Rogers, comp., History of Legislation Relating to the National Park System Through the 82nd Congress (Washington: National Park Service, 1958), C de C, p. 1.

38. Ibid.

39. Hagerman to Cammerer, Apr. 27, 1931, NA, RG 79, NPS, Nat. Mon., C de C, Part 2.

40. Albright to Hagerman, May 2, 1931, ibid.

41. Chatelain to Albright, Mar. 10, 1933, encl., p. 1.