Kit Carson | Long Walk of the Navajo (Part 5)

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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During the summer of 1863, the U.S. Government sent the legendary Kit Carson to reign in the Navajo. As such, the former Mountain Man adopted a scorched earth policy, burning crops and villages, restricting access to water, and pretty much annihilating everything he could find that belonged to the Navajo. What resulted is an incredibly dark chapter in American history known as the Long Walk, as thousands of refugees were marched from their homeland and forced to live in conditions more akin to a concentration camp than a reservation. But who were the Navajo? Why were they targeted? How much of a role did Kit Carson truly play in the Long Walk? Why’d he get involved in the first place? And how did the Navajo fare once they found themselves on the Bosque Redondo? Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Into History for ad-free and bonus content! https://intohistory.supercast.com/ Join Patreon for ad-free and bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Merch! https://wildwestextramerch.com/ Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d Carson’s Autobiography - https://archive.org/details/kitcarsonsautobi0000cars/page/106/mode/2up Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides - https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Thunder-Carson-Conquest-American/dp/1400031109 This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp - Give online therapy at try at betterhelp.com/WildWest and get on your way to being your best self! This episode is sponsored by Manscaped - get 20% off and free shipping with code WILDWEST at https://manscaped.com !!! This episode is sponsored by HelloFresh - For a limited time, kids eat FREE! Go to HelloFresh.com/wildwestkids to unlock this exclusive offer !!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	During the summer of 1863, the U.S. government sent the legendary Kit Carson to deal with the Navajo.
0:06.8	As such, the former mountain man adopted a scorched earth policy, burning crops and villages,
0:12.5	restricting access to water, and pretty much annihilate in everything he could find that belonged
0:17.0	to the Navajo. What resulted is an especially dark chapter in American history known as the
0:22.3	long walk, as thousands of refugees were marched from their homeland and forced to live in conditions
0:27.6	more akin to a concentration camp than a reservation. But who were the Navajo? How much of a role did
0:33.9	Kit Carson truly play in the long walk? Why do you get involved in the first place?
0:38.7	And how did the Navajo fare once they found themselves on the Bostka Redondo?
0:43.3	My name's Josh and this is the Wild West extravaganza.
1:00.4	The Danay or Navaj, as they're more commonly known, began migrating south around a thousand years ago, eventually laying claim to a massive swat the land for present-day New Mexico
1:06.0	all the way west into Arizona. Initially, hunter-gatherers, the dene quickly adapted to farming as well as raising
1:12.9	livestock. Sheep especially would play a very important role to their way of life, not only as a
1:18.4	source of food, but also wool, which they'd used to weave their famous Navajo blankets. The
1:23.6	Dene were also a warrior society, and much like other tribes there in the southwest,
1:28.2	they would often clash with the Spanish and the Mexicans, and in time, even the Americans.
1:33.6	And partly, this was just self-preservation.
1:36.0	The Europeans not only wanted their land, but they also wanted to change the Navajo
1:40.1	were as a people.
1:41.5	The Spanish missionaries would even go so far as to chain captives to church pews.
1:46.1	At least they did until 1672, when a delegation of Navajo pulled the priest straight out the chapel,
1:51.7	stripped him naked, and bashed his head in with a bell. Needless to say, over the course of the
1:56.4	next century or so, efforts to convert the De were pretty much abandoned altogether. And the violence
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