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Navajo Long Walk

Navajo Long Walk. By Adara Tran, Erin McCone, Emily DiMarcantonio. Who Were the Navajo Indians?. Indians that lived in places like New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado Largest tribe of Indians in North America Lived in homes called Hogans

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Navajo Long Walk

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  1. Navajo Long Walk By Adara Tran, Erin McCone, Emily DiMarcantonio

  2. Who Were the Navajo Indians? • Indians that lived in places like New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado • Largest tribe of Indians in North America • Lived in homes called Hogans • Were forced out of there homes and moved onto reservations

  3. Who Were the Navajo Indians? (2) • They raised corn, bean and squash • Men hunted deer and other small game • Women collected nuts, fruits, and herbs • Used sheep for wool and horses for transportation • Called them selves the “Dine” tribe • Mainly Nomadic

  4. Who was involved? • The Navajo Indians • Kit Carson destroyed their farms, homes, and killed their animals • He forced about 8,000 Indians to walk to Ft. Sumner • He forced into Reservations to “tame” them • Reservations were ill planned

  5. What Caused the Navajo Long Walk? • Indian Removal act • Americans wanted the Indians off “their” land, which the Indians had owned all their life • Kit Carson wanted them off the land so that he would be able to open the land for mining

  6. Addition Facts of the long walk • Gold was supposedly found under the Indian’s land, making it valuable • Indians had to walk hours a day, the reservation was 300 miles away • Indian’s had to carry their dead for 3 days at a time, because the soldiers only allowed them to bury the dead every 3 days. • There is a movie about this called “Tears of the Navajo”

  7. Bibliography • http://aihecvl.org/pathfinders/longwalk/index.htm • http://www.logoi.com/ • http://www.google.com/imgres?q=indian+on+horse&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&sa=N&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&biw=1280&bih=603&tbm=isch&tbnid=YINxxtnSr3Vm4M:&imgrefurl=http://bluebird.blogstream.com/emailBlog.mod%3FPID%3D321951&docid=RppAFdTYw0cQEM&imgurl=http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm175/Merike_photos/Intiaanit/PaintingW-IndianHorse.jpg&w=506&h=454&ei=cOOzTvy8C8bh0QHLzb3ABA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=774&vpy=269&dur=156&hovh=213&hovw=237&tx=131&ty=110&sig=114087065436756203547&page=1&tbnh=126&tbnw=138&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:11,s:0:&imgrefurl=http://www.comicvine.com/kit-carson/49-25841/&docid=Lz5Os_KfP_Kt4M&imgurl=http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/2/27722/718425-kit_carson_1_large.jpg&w=300&h= • http://www.google.com/imgres?q=kit+carson&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&sa=N&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&biw=1280&bih=603&tbm=isch&tbnid=LFbyh62oGc9rtM432&ei=DeWzTuHiA8nn0QGy77zJBA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=219&sig=114087065436756203547&page=2&tbnh=114&tbnw=71&start=26&ndsp=29&ved=1t:429,r:23,s:26&tx=29&ty=23

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