Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale

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American History Hit · Long Walk of the Navajo · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

And so you have the destruction of water sources.

You have the destruction of livestock, sheep, goats, and horses.

You have the destruction of the cornfields.

And then every home, which we call hogans, ho-wan,

were also destroyed.

So the campaign against Navajo people was really to destroy all manners of subsistence.

And so this is a long time ago that I did this work, particularly as a graduate student.

I mean, this has been more than 40 years that I've been doing this work.

And so some of the primary documents that

I had been reading was about officers' reports, American officers' reports about how Navajo people were coming into the two forts, and that some of them literally only had a piece of cloth to cover their privates.

And so they didn't have a choice.

It was a matter of survival to come into the two forts.

And then

When they came into the two forts, they were then caravans of prisoners arranged to go on what is called the Long Walk.

But actually, the Long Walk is not just one long walk.

There is record that there was at least 53 forced marches.

The marches began in

August of 1863.

And the last caravan of prisoners arrived at the Basque Redondo Reservation at Fort Sumner in 1866.

And so you can read indigenous histories that include

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