By: Laura Cutler, Maddie Dugan, Megan Partridge, and Rosemary Barnhart

 Indian removal effort   Forced out of their land  Viewed Americans as weaklings

 Treaty after war  Navajo lived in new American land  Were forced to leave  Many died along the way  Travel more than 450 miles

 Navajos-the native Americans  William T.H. Brooks-new commander of fort defiance  Manuelito- Lead the Navajos leadership  General James H Carleton-New Mexico’s US army commander  Kit Carson-directed the destruction of Navajos property and directed and organized the long walk

 Also known as the Bosque Redondo  Made to rehabilitate the Navajos  8,500 Navajos  Walked 500 miles  From Arizona to New Mexico

 Miserable failure  Sovereignty in the treaty of 1868  Returned to land hungry  Territory reduced  Few allowed to return to native lands

 Didn’t work  Many Navajos died of disease  Land was reduced  Returned to land Hungary and in land  Angry with settlers