Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale

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

to comfort them as best as they could.

My great-great-great-grandfather, who I said was known as Manuelito, his wife, my great-great-great-grandmother was known as Juanita, which was her Mexican name, held out until 1866.

And so he surrendered in 1866.

And he and his people had been reduced to, I can't remember the exact number, but it was like 34, 35 people.

And that included his wife and their relatives, as well as my grandmother.

And so then they were then sent to Basque Redondo.

And

One of the things that was just really rich for me was that I was able to find photographs of my grandparents that date from the Fort Sumner period.

Photographs of them, 1868, all the way into the 1880s.

And then after his Navajo name was Estridge Ilajene Manuelito.

He died in 1893, and the Navajo people are incarcerated at Bosque Redondo for four years from late 1863 into May or June of 1868.

And so the end of their incarceration with what would be the last treaty that the Navajo leaders signed with the Americans, which for Navajo people is still called the Treaty of 1868.

And so that ended the incarceration of Navajo people.

And one of the agreements made was that the Navajo people would be allowed to return to their homeland, to the Nebekaya.

And for this period,

Navajo people being allowed to return to their homeland as one of the agreements under the Treaty of 1868 was distinct because many indigenous people were relocated to Indian territory in what is called Oklahoma.

Navajo leaders, particularly the Navajo peace leader called Barbensito, was able to negotiate a return to the homeland.

Well, you know, I said that the siege against Avril begins in the summer of 1863.

And the pivotal point was what's called Canyon de Chelly.

It was the fortress of Navajo people.

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