OPINION | The “Navajo Nation v. Arizona” SCOTUS decision is just the latest case of the U.S. government breaking its promises to Indigenous people.
in junior high school, after getting over my outrage and disgust, my first thought was, “Thank God we don’t do that anymore.”Supreme Court
Even though the United States and the Navajo signed a treaty in 1849, 14 years later federal troops drove the Navajos from their ancestral homeland and marched them “some 300 miles” to live captive at Bosque Redondo, “a small piece of land on the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico.” This became known as the Long Walk, and it was a disaster: Bosque Redondo lacked sufficient water or arable land and was unsuitable for livestock. Many Navajo died.
The Navajo have waited literally for decades for the federal government to fulfill its promises, and the answer from Washington has been a stone wall.not
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