Navajo Timeline by Dahlia Pousson https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8 Group Assignment en-us 2021-11-16 15:38:46 UTC 2025-11-01 10:04:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f5fa.png The Long Walk -August 1864 12000018 https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1894883373 The Long Walk was when the Americans forced the Navajo people to walk to Fort Sumner, where they lived in a place they called Hweeldi.]]> 2021-11-16 18:25:02 UTC https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1894883373 The Navajo came to the Southwest -1000 years ago 12000018 https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1897660230 1000 years ago, Navajo people came to  the Southwest from Alaska, and the Ethnologists know this because their language links them with the Athabaskan people of Alaska.]]> 2021-11-17 18:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1897660230 The Navajo left Fort Sumner -June 18, 1868 12000018 https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1897671185 The Navajo made a treaty with the Americans to never try to fight them, and because of that, they got permission to live on the homeland again.]]> 2021-11-17 18:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1897671185 Kit Carson waging war -1863 12000018 https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1900083494 In 1863, Kit Carson struck the final blow in the battle against the Navajos, forcing them to yield to the Americans.]]> 2021-11-18 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1900083494 The Mexicans first came to the Southwest -1540 12000018 https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1900098988 The Mexicans came to the Southwest, introducing widespread slavery on the native peoples that lived there.]]> 2021-11-18 17:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1900098988 Navajo children started being shipped to boarding schools -1883 1349100 https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1900106387 Navajo kids were taken to American schools and told that their traditions were enemies of progress. The Americans at the boarding schools took their jewelry, hair, and attempted to take there language away from them.]]> 2021-11-18 17:12:56 UTC https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1900106387 Americans started removing Navajos from their homes -1863 1183234 https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1900118900
The Americans dominated the Southwest and listened to the New Mexicans who wanted to continue the Navajo slave trade, which led to the Americans waging war on the Navajo people.]]> 2021-11-18 17:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1900118900 The world war ll started and Native American languages were used as codes -1942 1349100 https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1900236263 The Japanese studied native American languages so the Americans could not use them as codes, which is why WW l veteran Philip Jonson made a code based off of Navajo language because it was a language that the Japanese did not study, so they couldn't crack it.]]> 2021-11-18 18:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1900236263 Mexicans started capturing Navajo people -1661 1349187 https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1900254176 In 1661, Mexicans captured thousands of Navajo people and forced them to work in the mines and as personal slaves.]]> 2021-11-18 18:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1900254176 WWll ended -Sep 2, 1945 1349100 https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1902544215 The Japanese ended the fighting and WW2 ended for good.]]> 2021-11-19 17:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1902544215 The Navajo code went out of use-1968 1349100 https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1902571804 As most of the code talkers left the navy, the Navajo code settled down and just became another thing in history.]]> 2021-11-19 17:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/12000018/1l874o2emyqljnb8/wish/1902571804