READING CHECK || "Long Walk of the Navajo"

Which option BEST explains how the federal peace commission interacted with the Navajo people?

• They imposed an unfamiliar pattern of communal living on the Navajo people and left them to die of starvation and exposure.
• They investigated Navajo complaints against European settlers and removed the settlers from Navajo ancestral lands.
• They offered protection for the Navajo people as they made the long walk to the reservation, but then allowed them to return home.
• They listened to the Navajo concerns and established a treaty to return them to their homeland.

TRUE? or FALSE? The United States and Euro-Americans perceived the Navajo as a violent, warlike people.

• TRUE: Military posts were established within Navajo country to deal with the tribe.
• FALSE: The Navajo was seen as a civilized tribe that favored trade with the United States.

How many people from the Navajo tribe were forced to march from their sacred land in Arizona to a reservation in east-central New Mexico?

• 2,000
• 4,000
• 6,000
• 8,000
• 10,000

What was the name of the land within the Four Sacred Mountains created by Navajos' Holy people?

• Dinétah
• Ahéhee'
• Dooda
• Donadagvhoi

How is General James H. Carleton different from General William Sherman?

• Carleton proposed a “scorched earth” policy against the Navajo; Sherman believed such a tactic was inhumane.
• Carleton had no regard for the suffering of the Navajo people; Sherman listened to Navajo concerns.
• Carleton was strict about protecting the interests of the Navajo people; Sherman wanted to find the gold on Navajo land.
• Carleton believed that the reservation experiment was a failure; Sherman believed it was the best solution for the Navajo people.

Kit Carson's troops burned the Navajo's crops, killed their livestock, and massacred the men, women and children. What is the name for this type of military policy?

• "Scorched earth"
• "Smoke screening"
• "Blitzkrieg"
• "Marching Fire"

The 300 mile march of the Navajo to the Bosque Redondo reservation became known by which name?

• "The Trail of Tears"
• "The Long Walk"
• "The Death March"
• "The Bosque March"

What effect did Spanish settlers have on the Navajo people?

• The Spanish removed the Navajo from their native land, Dinétah.
• Spanish settlement disrupted trade between the Navajo and nearby tribes.
• The Spanish brought horses, cattle, and sheep to Navajo lands.
• Spanish missionaries introduced the belief in a Holy People that would protect the Navajo.

What is the main idea of the article?

• Spanish settlers and the American government disrupted the Navajo way of life.
• The Navajo people could not tolerate living on a reservation.
• The Treaty of 1868 returned the Navajo to their homeland.
• The U.S. government sent the Navajo on a forced march to a reservation in New Mexico.

TRUE? or FALSE? Most of the Navajo tribe still remain on the Bosque Redondo reservation today.

• TRUE: Since the mid 1860's the Bosque Redondo reservation has been home to the Navajo tribe.
• FALSE: After General Sherman and Barboncito signed a treaty in 1868, the Navajo were allowed to return to their homeland.