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Accompanied by contemporary and historical photographs, an account of the U.S. Military's forcible removal of the Navajo to a tiny reservation in east-central New Mexico, hundreds of miles from their traditional homeland, traces the routes of their journey and describes the devastation suffered by the people both along the way and in the camp.
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"Old Pounder," they called him-- the very first Navajo silversmith. Yet Herrero Delgadito's greatest legacy is measured in lives, not ounces: the scores of Navajo women and children he plucked out of slavery in 1864, the hundreds of exiles he risked everything to feed in 1865 and the thousands of people he helped lead back home in 1868. A remarkable portrait of human resilience, Delgadito's story upends conventional narratives of the West, revealing...
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