Chronicle of the many peoples who have lived in and around the Canyon de Chelly in north-easten Arizona. Focuses in the Cavajo Navajo, who came to the about 700 years ago, after the Pueblo Indians, builders of the great cliff houses, had mysteriously abandoned it. Traces the Navajos' struggle, against the Spanish, then against the "Anglos," to keep their land and their culture intact. Relates the aftermath of their defeat at the hands of Kit Carsons; the killing winter march in 1864 to a concentration camp-reservation in New Mexico.
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