 He was on good terms with the Hopi Indians, and in 1875 an LDS Church was built on Hopi land.In 1875, the English trader Thomas Keam escorted Hopi leaders to meet President Chester A. Arthur in Washington D.C. "Loololma," village chief of Oraibi at the time, was very impressed with Washington.In 1887, a federal boarding school was established at Keams Canyon for Hopi children.