Empire · approximate1500 – 1868 · 368 years

Navajo (Diné) / Dinétah

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

No editorial summary yet for Navajo (Diné) / Dinétah. The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.

Borders & accuracy

Approximate borders

Dashed borders mark empires whose extent we can date but whose precise frontiers are contested or undocumented.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-traced from Waldman, Atlas of the North American Indian; Smithsonian Handbook vol. 10 (Southwest)
SNAPSHOT1846
MATCHEDUnited States
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire3

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Battle of Copper Pass1835
Regional
Battle of Fort Defiance1860
Regional
Battle of Canyon de Chelly1864
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1500 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Navajo (Diné) / Dinétah (1500 – 1868). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/navajo-dinetah · Sources & methodology