Navajo long walk

Armstrong, Nancy M. (Author). Lambert, Paulette Livers, (ill.).

Summary: "In 1864 the Navajo Indians were forced by the U.S. Cavalry to leave their ancestral home in Arizona for a government internment camp nearly three hundred miles away in New Mexico ..."--Cover, p. [4].

Record details

ISBN: 1879373564 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781879373563 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
120 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Boulder, CO : Roberts Rinehart Book/Taylor Trade Pub. in cooperation with the Council for Indian Education/Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group : Distributed by National Book Network, 1994.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Trouble comes to the mesa -- Off to the hide-out -- Soldiers find the canyon -- Time to surrender -- Back to the mesa -- On to Fort Defiance -- A happy surprise -- The long walk begins -- The long walk continues -- Crossing the Rio Grande -- A restful stopover -- Arrival at Fort Sumner -- Kee meets Smoke -- School begins -- Weaving brings happiness -- Cold, hunger, and Comanche raiders -- A new friend -- Little Mare enters Kee's life -- A big surprise -- Homeward bound -- Back to the mesa -- Home at last.