Long Walk Death March Navajo Strength

she [Music] she [Music] she that was a song and it was a song of joy of happiness we're saying I'm going home and I'm happy I'm going up [Music] it's a painful story that needs to be told [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] because this is a story that has not really been told it's a story of the the incarceration of our native peoples of our Navajo people's a long time ago early 1860s is when all of our ancestors have been gathered up and then they were told to walk to Fort Sumner New Mexico [Music] people have come to her home and they been captured again so and she thought like okay I'm not gonna fight so she just went along the soldiers were ordered to kill all men and take the women and children the death march was 400 miles they had no food no water to take with them once you were caught were basically in New Mexico and eastern part of Arizona and they were taking us about 8,000 taken down to Fort Sumner which is in New Mexico and now who we caught away today and the place of our suffering the soldiers were in horses and wagons but the Navajo people the moccasins were worn out nothing to wear their feet were blistered sand sword these people were not nice she says they were thrown people even elderly people she saw her mom and her grandma got crash they were just thrown all the people in the wagon and even little kids they were just being crushed and she just walked and she knew she lost all her family and she just kept on walking and walk all the way and along the way there was many stories of people who were who were just shot because they were they were ill babies would try to shoot him people that are trying to run off this has to be shut down the soldiers kept on pushing and pushing them and pushing them and they wanted to rest but they couldn't arrest the only time they could rest was when the soldiers wanted to rest during the March there were some harsh winters that they went through the kids were just in rags no clothing no food to eat I mean it was just a brutal March I mean these people were suffering day after day he was a POW and POW love didn't that people he's just put them in the wash and just put covers with dirt over them kids who couldn't keep up with the group were just left there and we're just uses mercifully shot and killed otherwise they were just left there to to be part of the carnivores dinner so you know so [Music] even up to this day people still save didn't made people were not malicious people when you get soul up the narrow either to rape the woman or either they rape do love kids and stuff like that those were the one that do the caption for the for the soldiers they help the soldier capture - now after they do I retain all their business and then they give it to the to the soldiers could Carson was a traitor each would be trade to Navajo people get Carson was he was a bad person and we didn't treat it yeah they gave up she put them quite flat home went to Fort Defiance but still it doesn't matter they had to walk there was a burnout campaign by by Kit Carson which he tried to get as many Navajos that he could he got about seven or eight thousand dollars he wanted to flush out the Navajos by contaminating their water killing their livestock burning their crops because they have fields of corn to have fields of squash to have orchards they have flocks of sheep they have cows their horses these people are very well set kid Carson went after all this and he burned out the Hogan's he burned out the crops he chopped down the orchards and burning them you know and this was the scorched earth policy he used the federal government was after gold minerals uranium I mean the Navajo land was rich [Music] Kit Carson hurt a lot of people and up to this day some of the effects are still with or elderly people at one time Carson Christopher Carson lived among the Navajo and he learned how the Navajo live and how they were what were their homes were where the food stores were we can uh trim a soldier there right in their horse oh here in this valley yes there's some people that weren't taught they were hiding on top of these Mesa that's the survival Mesa that's where people were hiding on top and the soldier never so what happens like when when a woman is pregnant when I are denied people okay when a woman is but toasted do time that's when do you do wolf it's like a belt maybe about that white when you're being chased and you are running away from your enemy all of suddenly you go and labor and as you're running along the desert all you have to do is untie your belt you see a branches or a tree right there you see branches just throw that thing over it and that's how you deliver your baby my grandfather he was a he was born in 1865 either on the way to Fort Sumner or down there and he was one of the lucky children that's who lucky babies that survived that incident there was I think like something like fifteen to twenty percent survival rate among children that were born there or on the way there and he was one who survived he was born 1865 he passed away 1962 [Music] [Laughter] when I remember my grandfather my tears flow why do people cry when they pray [Music] the reason why you cry when you pray as you approach the Creator the way you approached your mother when you were born you cried out to her and she knew your life so we'll move approached the Creator we cry so he knows we are alive in 1864 there were 25,000 Navajos in 1868 within that four year span there are only 2000 remaining this is your home this is the safe place and it's very quiet and this is very holy place even your even when you yell out there there's echo even to that we still have people paid to that my mom had taught me you are not supposed to hate people that is not you you have to have a heart for it even though even though some somebody is your enemy even though they don't like you you always have to have a heart for them I think I was we were taught that too much and that's why we don't have hate for other people or people that had hurt us people that hurt you [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

Channel: C-Bar Studios

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Keywords: Long walk, Death march, Mark Baugher, C-Bar, Navajo, Monument Valley, Native American, C-Bar movie, Apache, Dine, Western, Navajo land, Kit Carson, Canyon de Chelle, survival mesa, genocide, Dine Navajo, Bosque Redondo, Fort Defiance, Fort Sumner

Id: y5FwX-IcoL8

Length: 13min 52sec (832 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 22 2019