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Bill Taft: “The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation in all respects to the status…”

On the recordFebruary 16, 1912
The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation in all respects to the status existing prior to the said proclamation of March 2, 1909, as though the inclusion of the lands within the Sitgreaves National Forest had not been ordered, and said Indian reservation is hereby fully recreated and restored to that status.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Executive Order 1479—Restoring Lands to White Mountain Indian Reservation

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