The Long Walk of the Navajo People, 1864-1868
Monte Vista Village Resort 8865 E. Baseline Rd., Mesa, AZ, United StatesIn 1864, the Navajo people were forced to walk over 450 miles to Fort Sumner in eastern New Mexico, an unfortunate event that is known in the Navajo language as Hweeldi. The story of this fatal march has been recorded and interpreted in historical literature by many non-Navajo authors and absent from that literature is […]