Presents an overview of the history of the Navajo Indians, with a detailed account of how the United States Government, represented by Kit Carson, forced them on a 300-mile walk from their homeland in the Southwest to a prison camp at Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, in 1864, and their eventual return home after the United States-Navajo Treaty of 1868.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
People's journey -- Sacred land -- Navajo home -- Shadows over the land -- Scorched earth -- At Bosque Redondo -- Long journey home -- Navajo today.