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Navajo Long Walk: Tragic Story Of A Proud Peoples Forced March From Homeland
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Item Description...
Overview
Tells the tragic story of how, in the 1860s, U.S. soldiers forced thousands of Navajos to march to a desolate reservation four hundred miles from their homeland in an effort to "civilize" them, only to have hundreds die along the way and the rest find unspeakable living conditions at their destination. Teacher's Guide available.
Publishers Description
Abenaki Joseph Bruchac and Navajo Shonto Begay combine their talents to tell the tragic story of how, in the 1860s, U.S. soldiers forced thousands of Navajos to march to a desolate reservation 400 miles from their homeland in an effort to “civilize” them. Hundreds died along the way; those who survived found unspeakable living conditions at their destination. When word of the Indians’s plight finally gained public attention, President Andrew Johnson sent a Peace Commission to investigate. The resulting treaty allowed the Navajos to return to their homeland, and ho’zho—harmony—was restored. The Navajos prospered and have lived in peace with the U.S. government ever since while preserving their own proud |
Item Specifications...
Pages 64
Dimensions: Length: 0.5" Width: 9.25" Height: 11"
Weight: 1.15 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Apr 1, 2002
Publisher National Geographic Children's Books
Age 9-12
ISBN 0792270584
EAN 9780792270584
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 | Navajo Long Walk : Tragic Story Of A Proud Peoples Forced March From Homeland Sep 24, 2007 |
| Excellent Research Book. Help make clearer how them like other tribes had to leave there homeland and travel someplace else. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a nations struggle for survival. | | | | Thayer's book review Nov 26, 2002 |
| Navajo Long Walk is an exciting book about an Indian family who is forced to go to camps and live the white sholdiers' way. The main characters are Kee, Hasba, Gentle Woman, the mother, Strong Man, the father, and Wise One, the grandfather. This family, like all the other Navajo families, have to move to different for-away camps that are called forts. Some of the forts they go to are Fort Defiance and Fort Summer. Kee learns that you can be friends with white soldiers like when he neets a white soldier, his horse and his son. The reader will enjoy this book becasue it is very detailed and you can picture every word in your mind. You will have a great experience reading about the Navajo way of life. | | | Write your own review about Navajo Long Walk: Tragic Story Of A Proud Peoples Forced March From Homeland
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