June 1, 1868 is remembered among the Navajo as Treaty Day, and has since been commemorated, including on June 1, 1999, when thousands gathered at a ceremony held at Northern Arizona University.

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By signing the 1868 Treaty, the Navajo (Diné) Nation agreed to cease war against the United States, allow U.S. officials to live within their lands and oversee their obligations to the Navajo (Diné), and permit the construction of railroads through their lands.

On June 1, 1868, a delegation of Navajo leaders signed with X’s a “treaty and agreement” with the United States that ended the exile of the Navajo from their ancestral homeland and their incarceration at Fort Sumner.

On June 1, 1868, Navajo (Diné) leaders signed a final Treaty with the United States at the Bosque Redondo Reservation in New Mexico, where 2,000 Navajo (Diné) internees, one out of four, died and remain buried in unmarked graves.

On June 1, 1868, the parties reached an agreement that established the Navajo Reservation and allowed the Navajos to return to their sacred homeland. One night we left; we slipped away, very quietly, and started back to our mountains where there was pure, cold water and plenty of wood and no worms, no bad smells, no Navajos, and no soldiers.

Aug 22, 2018 · On June 1, 1868, Indian Peace Commissioners Gen. William T. Sherman and Samuel F. Tappan signed a treaty with the Navajo Nation at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Up to 10,000 Diné, as they call themselves, had been rounded up beginning in 1864 and driven from their homeland by the military in what became known as their “Long Walk.”

Introduction to the Treaty of June 1, 1868. The 1868 Navajo Treaty enabled roughly 8,000 Navajo individuals to return from detainment in New Mexico to a 100-square-mile reservation along the borders of Arizona and New Mexico.

The Navajo Treaty of 1868, signed on June 1, represents a document of liberation but also a reminder of the many deaths that occurred during the "Long Walk" and brutal incarceration of Navajo (Diné) People at Hwéeldi or Fort Sumner, New Mexico (1846-1868).

Feb 4, 2018 · Signed on paper torn from an army ledger book, the Navajo Nation Treaty, signed June 1, 1868, reunited the Navajo with the land taken from them. From 1863 to 1866, the U.S. Army forced more than 10,000 Navajo from their homeland to Bosque Redondo, a camp in the New Mexico desert.