The Long Walk: The Forced Navajo Exile (Landmark Events in Native American History) (repost)
The Long Walk: The Forced Navajo Exile (Landmark Events in Native American History)
Chelsea House Publications | 2007-11-30 | ISBN: 0791093441 | 143 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
Chelsea House Publications | 2007-11-30 | ISBN: 0791093441 | 143 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
Through a series of treaties, the first of which was signed in 1849, the Navajo Nation began to cede its homeland to the U.S. government. By this time, some Americans had begun to settle in Navajo territory-the present-day Four Corners region of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah-but the real impetus for wanting the Navajos' land was greed. Led by General James Carleton, the U.S. Army hoped to remove the Navajos and claim the extensive mineral and pastoral wealth of their lands. In June 1863, Carleton presented the Navajos with an ultimatum: Surrender by the following month or accept the consequences.