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  2. Long Walk of the Navajo - Wikipedia

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    A U.S. soldier stands guard over Navajo people during the Long Walk. Manuelito family at Bosque Redondo, Fort Sumner, NM. c. 1864. Major General James H. Carleton was assigned to the New Mexico Territory in the fall of 1862, it is then that he would subdue the Navajos of the region and force them on the long walk to Bosque Redondo.

  3. To'Hajiilee Navajo Chapter - Wikipedia

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    It is a Navajo phrase roughly translated in English as "Dipping Water." It was formed on the "Long Walk," during the forced relocation of Navajo tribal people, in 1864. Residents there claim that people who settled there, were considered (and still are, infrequently) a renegade band who refused to go further and settled in this part of New ...

  4. List of American Indian Wars - Wikipedia

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    Navajo Wars (c. 1600–1866) Crown of Castile (c. 1600–1716) Spain (1716–1821) Mexico (1821–48) United States (1849–66) Navajo: Long Walk of the Navajo (1863–68) Navajos moved to reservations; Anglo-Powhatan Wars (1610–46) English colonists Powhatan Confederacy Treaty of Middle Plantation; Pequot War (1636–38) Massachusetts Bay Colony

  5. Battle of Canyon de Chelly - Wikipedia

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    By the summer of 1864 Carson had accepted the largest Native American surrender in history. [4] Nearly 8,000 people had surrendered and were soon moved to the Bosque Redondo reservation. The deadly journey became known as the Long Walk of the Navajo. In 1868, after four years of exile, the Navajo were allowed to return to their homeland.

  6. Navajo Wars - Wikipedia

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    Starting in January 1864, many bands and their leaders—Barboncito, Armijo, and finally in 1866 Manuelito—surrendered or were captured and made what is called the "Long Walk" to the Bosque Redondo reservation at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Between 1000-2000 Navajo evaded capture and never surrendered, taking refuge in the Grand Canyon, Black ...

  7. 1864 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    January – Long Walk of the Navajo: Bands of Navajo led by the U.S. Army are relocated from their traditional lands in eastern Arizona Territory and western New Mexico Territory to Fort Sumner in the Pecos River valley. At least 200 died along the 300-mile (480 km) trek that took over 18 days to travel on foot.

  8. Navajo trading posts - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. government pledged to provide the returning Navajo with the means to make a living by farming and ranching and the Navajo pledged to halt their raiding. The 3,000 or more Navaho who had avoided the Long Walk came out of hiding and joined the returnees. [1] [2] [3] Ruins of a trading post near Shonto, Arizona.

  9. Fort Sumner - Wikipedia

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    All of the Mescalero Apache had been relocated by the end of 1862, but the Navajo were not resettled in large numbers until early 1864. The Navajo refer to the journey from Navajo land to the Bosque Redondo as the Long Walk. More than 300 Navajo died making the journey. [5] It was a bitter memory to many Navajo.