![]() On this death march of hundreds of miles, more than 3,000 died of cold and starvation or were killed-the soldiers shot pregnant women and elderly people and all others who couldn’t keep up.ĭzáni Yázhi Naazbaa’ (Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home) is the young Naabeehó (Navajo) girl who survives the Long Walk and the four-year incarceration at Fort Sumner. soldiers launched a scorched-earth offensive against Diné Bekayah, grabbed up some 8,000 Navajo women and men, children and old people, and marched them off to a barren concentration camp known as Bosque Redondo ( Fort Sumner). Salina Bookshelf, 2005, grades 3-upĬhildren, today more than ever, need to know the truths of history, even-no, especially-the ugly parts, the parts often deemed “not for children.” One of these truths is what has come to be known as the “Navajo Long Walk.” In 1863-1864, U.S. Yazzie, Evangeline Parsons (Diné), Dzáni Yázhi Naazbaa’/Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home: A Story of the Navajo Long Walk, color paintings by Irving Toddy (Diné), Navajo translation by the author. ![]()
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