On a warm summer day in June, Johnny Lehi stands a few steps off U.S. Route 89 under the harsh, northern Arizona sun.
He stares at a windswept expanse of red rocks, cliffs and clay that he hopes he’ll soon be able to officially call his own.
Over two decades ago, Lehi’s tribe — the San Juan Southern Paiute — signed a treaty with the Navajo Nation that set aside parts of Navajo land for the Southern Paiute people, one of 22 federally-recognized tribes in Arizona, and the only one without a reservation…