NAVAJO INDIANS - HISTORY

History from early times to the signing of the Peace Treaty

W. T. Sherman and the Navajo

In 1967 Miss Doris Duke of New York granted funds to several major universities, including the University of Arizona, to inaugurate programs in American Indian oral history. The tapes pertaining to Arizona Indians include 412 interviews on the Navajo

Tells of the 1899-1900 incident of the illegal warrant issued for arrest of a Navajo party, the subsequent fight between Navajo and cattlemen and the final peaceful outcome in which the Navajos were vindicated