This long-lost journal, now available in paperback, gives a unique look into the old Navajo country. Recently rediscovered, it is both the earliest and only extensive eyewitness account of the traditional Navajo homeland in the eighteenth century. It reveals new information on Hispanic New Mexico and relations with the Indians. For the first twenty days in August of 1705, Roque Madrid led about 100 Spanish soldiers and citizens together with some 300 Pueblo Indian allies on a 312-mile march in retaliation for Navajo raiding. The bilingual text permits appreciation of the unusually literate...
This long-lost journal, now available in paperback, gives a unique look into the old Navajo country. Recently rediscovered, it is both the earliest an...
This personal and historical account traces the origins and progress of the twentieth-century legal battle, Healing v. Jones, between the Hopis and Navajos over the control of the joint-occupation reservation originally set aside by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882. David M. Brugge has contributed a new afterword to update the federal case and land issue.
This personal and historical account traces the origins and progress of the twentieth-century legal battle, Healing v. Jones, between the Hopis and Na...
