Opinion ID: 704021
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Boarding School Land.

Text: 98 The district court found that in 1934, the government had managed a farm and pasture at the Tuba City Boarding School. Masayesva, 793 F.Supp. at 1509. Hopi and Navajo children attended the school, and the Hopi Tribe contended that Hopis had worked on the land. Id. The district court concluded that Hopis were not located on the boarding school land for purposes of obtaining rights to property. Id. This is a legal rather than strictly factual question, so we review de novo, McConney, 728 F.2d at 1202-04, and affirm. 99 Navajo interests are the residue of all the land in the 1934 reservation except for the pockets of land on which the Hopis were located in 1934. Sekaquaptewa, 619 F.2d at 808. Attending or working at a boarding school is not the kind of settlement which Congress meant to protect in the statute. One does not obtain a property interest in land where one attends school or works as an employee, no matter how long one is there in these capacities. 100