Long Walk
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American Indian History
- Geographical Location: New Mexico, Arizona
- Date: August, 1863-September, 1866
Article abstract: Forced to walk from their ancestral lands to an arid reservation three hundred miles away, the Navajo lose their home and many of their people.
Perhaps the most significant event in Navajo history occurred during and immediately after the U.S. Civil War, when U.S. Army troops, under the authority of Colonel Christopher “Kit” Carson, methodically raided and subdued the various bands of Navajos who lived between the three rivers (the Colorado, Rio Grande, and San Juan) that encircled the Dinetah, Navajo ancestral lands in present-day Arizona...
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