The Long Walk: The Story of Navajo Captivity (Great Journeys)

About this book

Presents an overview of the history of the Navajo Indians with a detailed account of how the United States Government represented by Kit Carson forced them on a 300-mile walk from their homeland in the Southwest to a prison camp at Bosque Redondo New Mexico in 1864 and their eventual return home after the United States-Navajo Treaty of 1868.Looks at the forced three hundred-mile walk by the Navajo Indians from their homeland in the Southwest to a prison camp at Bosque Redondo New Mexico and their eventual return home after the United States-Navajo Treaty of 1868.