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While some Native American peoples have turned to tourism as a prominent attempt to attract money to the reservation, others are more leery of public scrutiny. While the Hopi are hardly reclusive, they do guard the privacy of their ceremonial and tradtional practices with considerably more vigor than their Navajo neighbors. In fact, the differing styles and practices of the Hopi and the Navajo in such fundamental areas as population control and expansion have generated some conflict, notably over the so-called "Black Mesa" controversy, in which a sizable number of Navajo families (and a much smaller number of the Hopi) were forced to relocate, after a Federal judge ruled that agreed-upon tribal boundaries had been violated. This made the Black Mesa affair something of a cause-celebre, especially as the Navajo cause was taken up by the court of public opinion.
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