Major conflict1849 – 1868 · 19 years

Navajo Wars / Long Walk

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Arizona · New Mexico · USA

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Series of US military campaigns culminating in forced removal of Navajo to Bosque Redondo. The Long Walk remains a defining trauma in Navajo history.

Belligerents2

United States
Navajo nation

ON THE MAPUnited States (1860)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Fort Defiance1860
Battle of Canyon de Chelly1864

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Navajo Wars / Long Walk (1849 – 1868). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/americas-navajo-wars-1849 · Sources & methodology