By: Laura Cutler, Maddie Dugan,
Megan Partridge, and Rosemary
Barnhart
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Indian removal effort
1863-1864
Forced out of their land
Viewed Americans as weaklings
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Treaty after war
Navajo lived in new American land
Were forced to leave
Many died along the way
Travel more than 450 miles
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Navajos-the native Americans
William T.H. Brooks-new commander of fort
defiance
Manuelito- Lead the Navajos leadership
General James H Carleton-New Mexico’s US
army commander
Kit Carson-directed the destruction of Navajos
property and directed and organized the long
walk
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Also known as the Bosque Redondo
Made to rehabilitate the Navajos
8,500 Navajos
Walked 500 miles
From Arizona to New Mexico
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Miserable failure
Sovereignty in the treaty of 1868
Returned to land hungry
Territory reduced
Few allowed to return to native lands
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Didn’t work
Many Navajos died of disease
Land was reduced
Returned to land Hungary and in land
Angry with settlers