Currently there is nation-wide interest in the plight of the Navaho Indians. These sheep-raisers in the northwestern corner of New Mexico, the northeastern corner of Arizona and southeastern Utah, at present number more than 60,000. Historically, the Navaho belonged to that Spanish colony, north of Mexico, which was known as New Mexico. Though the colony was chiefly around the Pueblo Indian settlements, the Spanish Crown laid claim to all territory north of Mexico, which included our present New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah, perhaps more than that.