Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale
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first heard Jul 2026
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the Navajo people's experience that is called the Long Walk.
And then you can learn about this experience through Navajo oral tradition.
And so as a historian, I've always been mindful of oral history and the oral tradition.
And so a lot of the stories of this experience of our ancestors remains in the collective memory of our people.
These oral stories capture what
is considered objective in terms of secondary sources, in terms of primary sources that originate from non-Navajo sources.
The Navajo sources convey the absolute misery of
humiliation, tears, heartbreak of the Navajo people when they begin the long walk.
And the long walk is not just one long walk.
It was 53 force marches.
It also took place across three different routes from the homeland, which begin at the two military forts, across the Rio Grande River, outside of Albuquerque, near Berlin and what is now Berlin and Los Lunes, these two small towns.
Some of the caravans came through Albuquerque.
Some of them
went through what is now called Santa Fe and then south to Fort Sumner.
And a third route was to take the prisoners north up to Fort Union.
And Fort Union is about 30 miles south of the Colorado border.
And that was by far the longest route of around 450 miles.
And so the oral histories, which remain very vibrant and very alive in Navajo storytelling, convey the trauma of this period and give you just what it was like during that period.
It's kind of hard to talk about resistance when you've had the military might of the Navajo leaders broken.
You had some Navajo leaders who went to Huelte, to Basque Redondo, to be with their people broken.
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