Navajo Tribal Council declares the reservation the Navajo Nation, also adopts Navajo flag The Navajo Tribal Museum established at Window Rock First woman elected to Navajo Tribal Council Marine Navajo Code Talkers in World War II - Navajo Marines use their language as a battlefield code, which the enemy is unable to decipher Navajo reject the Indian Reorganization Act because it is identified with livestock reduction Roosevelt appointed a Commissioner of Indian Affairs, who advocated a system of livestock reduction to alleviate soil erosion problems, in conflict with the importance of livestock to the Navajo Harry Goulding established a trading post, still in operation today Navajo Tribal Council created - Navajo communities are organized into chapters John and Louisa Wetherill start trading post at Oljato Treaty of Bosque Redondo creates a Navajo Reservation Kit Carson, in pursuit, named Agathla Peak ¡§El Capitan¡¨ because of its imposing rock formation. One group, led by Hoskininni, fled from Monument Valley. Captives are force-marched on the Long Walk to Fort Sumner, 350 miles east in New Mexico, and many died. 1863 A.D Scorched Earth Campaign conducted by Kit Carson against the Navajo.Army established Fort Defiance near Window Rock Massacre at Canyon de Chelly - Spanish soldiers kill more than 100 Navajo women, children, and elders hiding in a cave Navajo drive Spanish settlers from eastern regions off their land They name the Monument Valley area Valley or Treeless Area Amid the Rocks.San Juan Band Paiutes frequent the area as temporary hunters/gatherers Believed to have been born to Earth centuries earlier, a distinctive Navajo culture takes hold in the Four corners area of the Colorado Plateau. Archaeologists have recorded more than 100 ancient Anasazi sites and ruins dating before 1300 A.D. – The Anasazi Indians lived in the Monument Valley area before they disappeared. – Archaic hunter-gatherers in the Monument Valley Area 12,000-6,000 B.C.- Ice-Age Paleo-Indian hunters in Monument Valley Area.Those familiar with the Navaho admire their energy, industry, independence, and cheerful disposition, and their ability to attack the problems of life in a way that no other wandering tribe has exercised. While the statement is made that the Navaho were never a warlike people, it must not be presumed that they never caused our Government trouble. With their large population, had they possessed the Apache’s insatiable desire for war and a political organization that permitted concerted action, the subjugation of the Southwest would have been far more difficult than it proved to be. They preferred rather to follow a pastoral life. Manuelito, who was acclaimed head-chief in 1855 at the conference with Governor Meriwether for the purpose of negotiating a treaty, probably had a greater following than any other Navaho in historic times, but he could never have relied on a majority of the warriors of his widely scattered tribe.Īlthough divided into many bands, like the Apache, the Navaho, unlike them, were not engaged in ceaseless depredation, their sporadic raids having been conducted by small parties quite independent of any organized tribal movement. They never have had a tribal chief, properly so called, while their many leading men could never command more than a small following. The Navajo (DINE’) creation is the story of their origin through a series of emergences through a series of different colored worlds.Īccounts vary as to the exact number and colors of the worlds, for example, black, then blue, then yellow, then glittering, all of which lead up to their final emergence in the present world.Īlthough raiders and plunderers since known to history, the Navaho cannot be designated a warring tribe, for however courageous they may be, their lack of political integrity has ever been an obstacle to military organization. Navajo History – Long before the theory of the ‘land bridge from Asia to North America across the Bering Strait’, Navajo elders told their own story about their own origin.
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