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Multiple sites within Canyon de Chelly contain pictographs, pictures painted on rock by ancient inhabitants, predecessors of today’s Navajo people ... 300 miles (the Long Walk) to New Mexico ...
BIG MOUNTAIN – Billowing clouds rolled in and out over Big Mountain, bringing wind, rain, snow and sun when beloved Navajo matriarch and activist Katherine Smith said goodbye to the land she ...
“Navajo families hid in the caves, but many were taken, and our homes and farms destroyed.” The Long Walk was the mass deportation in 1864 of thousands of Diné men, women and children from ...
Hometown H20, a program of the Chris Long Foundation’s Waterboys initiative, announced Wednesday that it has donated $100,000 to DigDeep’s Navajo Water Project. The project helps provide water ...
which displaced and led many Navajo through the canyon on the “Long Walk.” That campaign, which began in 1864, forced thousands of Navajo to march hundreds of miles to Fort Sumner, in what is ...
HERE’S TODD KURTZ. THIS IS A BRUTAL STORY TO HEAR. IT’S HARD TO EVEN FATHOM WHAT NAVAJO PEOPLE ENDURED LEADING UP TO THE LONG WALK. HISTORIANS SAY KIT CARSON WAS ORDERED TO DEFEAT THE NAVAJO.
which displaced and led many Navajo through the canyon on the “Long Walk.” That campaign, which began in 1864, forced thousands of Navajo to march hundreds of miles to Fort Sumner, in what is ...
Activist Allie Redhorse Young has been bringing celebrities, popular events and voter registration to Navajo Nation. Now she's tapped into field organizers, too.
Ahead of the walk, people talked loosely about what mattered to them in the election. Women’s rights. Better roads. Broadband service. Most of the attendees live in Navajo Nation, the largest ...
The trek was also inspired by the Navajo Long Walk of 1864, when the U.S. government forced Navajo people from their homelands and made them walk more than 400 miles from Fort Defiance — the location ...
The trek was also inspired by the Navajo Long Walk of 1864, when the U.S. government forced Navajo people from their homelands and made them walk more than 400 miles from Fort Defiance — the ...