To'Hajiilee and the Long Walk 1862

[@bettybilly2496]

I am Dine’ from Tuba City, AZ. Thank you for enlightening me about our own people on the eastern side of the Navajo Nation. My daughter’s auntie inlaw is married into your community. Through my daughter, I hear stories about the cultural difference including language. Your view about us on the western side is appreciated. We need to come together as one people.

[@Spagoshi]

Ahe' hee for checking out Marty's video, much appreciated! We've been planning for over a year to be out in Tuba City & still haven't given up. There is some differences but there is more in common than our people think. Ahe' hee for your support!

[@Bezlonirslair]

Thank you for sharing this. This is a great style of interview. I would certainly like to learn more and understand this subject better.

[@Spagoshi]

Ahe' hee

[@thechosen1515]

Great oral history lesson. 👍 Respect brother. 🙏

[@Spagoshi]

Yessir, Marty is a great person with a ton of knowledge 🤙🏾

[@fannietracy6115]

Thank you for sharing

[@Spagoshi]

Ahe' hee, what area are you from? 🤙🏾

[@phyllisgene9935]

I can't believe this happen Navajo history, everyone who is Navajo should be proud of their history, culture.I'm a Navajo too from Smoke Signal/Low Mountain area.

[@Spagoshi]

Ahe' hee for your appreciation of our history and the stories our people share. We have more great interviews coming down the pipeline that we're proud to share. Have a great weekend

[@joechavez5356]

So very true , my grandfather use to get massages from out that way to go do his healing from out that way .

[@lexxmelancon1737]

I'm Navajo from the southern part of the big Rez in AZ and it's interesting that we don't know too much of our brethren to the east. Enemy Navajo. Wow. Us western Navajo wonder why they chose to live outside the boundaries of the 4 sacred mountains. Growing up, I always thought it was odd some Navajo lived so close to Albuquerque.

[@Spagoshi]

Ahe' hee for sharing insights about this episode. I hope Marty was able to bring some understanding of why such areas like Tohajiilee & Alamo exist outside of the main body of the Navajo Nation. Please share the word & help us bring our nation closer together. Ahe' hee

[@lexxmelancon1737]

@@Spagoshi Ahehee for sharing their story. I look forward to watching the rest of the videos on this channel. ^_^

[@Spagoshi]

@@lexxmelancon1737 🙌🏾

[@jackalope4286]

Alot of what he explained falls into place of what my nali' and my cheii' told us as kids growing up. The stories of people traveling home, and the first enemy way ceremony being held in tohajilee before moving west into the homeland.

[@Spagoshi]

The story of the To'hajiilee band was very fascinating to hear and the deeper lore of sacred significance was eye opening. Ahe' hee for watching

[@jackalope4286]

It's good stuff, keep it up. There's sacred places where our medicine people visit to pray and sing sacred songs, my cheii' spoke of a place in the tohajilee area, among other places throughout our traditional homeland. My maternal side of the family is from the howell mesa/ blue canyon area in the western agency

[@Spagoshi]

Yes Marty spoke of that, but we purposefully left it out of the video to keep our sacred culture intact. Thanks again for watching!

[@frederickdavis8587]

well said brother 👍👍

[@nealnez7729]

Thank you for the stories

[@Spagoshi]

You're welcome and more to come next Sunday

[@nealnez7729]

@@Spagoshi every area has their own stories about the long walk like teec nos pos and chinle area I love all the stories listing to all these stories about us Navajos what we went through

[@Spagoshi]

@@nealnez7729 if you know anyone in those areas who would like to share, have them contact us through our website, Facebook or Instagram and we would like to talk to them. Ahe' hee

[@nealnez7729]

@@Spagoshi theirs lots of elders that's knows stories about the long walk I know people that about it

[@Spagoshi]

@@nealnez7729 shoot us an email to [e-mail]

[@leebegay9088]

A great story, very informative I actually have not heard this story before. What I have heard or read what a guy named Sandoval who lead raids taking children and helping the Mexicans in the conflict. I am thinking these people were people who intermarried to whites and Mexicans.

[@D2uned]

What a great story within another great story. I can only offer empathy because never in my life have I known oppression by another civilization, culture, or race (with the possible exception of MAGA culture). No wonder a lot of the native people are not big fans of Columbus Day.

[@Spagoshi]

Ahe' hee David, thank you for the nice inspiring words. Another episode of Marty will be coming out next weekend.

[@Sequoyah5442]

Ya'at'eeh from Northwestern edge of N.N. Page/Lake Powell,Coppermine area Thxs for the story.

[@Spagoshi]

Aoh' ya'at'eeh, we're hoping to be in that area but short on contacts since they moved to Kayenta. If you know of anyone who would be interested in sharing their stories, have them contact us at [e-mail] We're always on the road and no problem traveling to their area. Ahe' hee

[@JupiterRadio]

Yá'át'ééh abíní from LeChee, AZ 😊

[@joechavez5356]

Most of the people that did the long walk were from Arizona .

[@LornaMartinez-kb7zp]

Dine people help me with a exhibition sep 15-16 in Taos kit Carson park

[@Spagoshi]

Do you have a social media handle to share?

[@Lavender09-r9i]

The traditional story behind why the long walk occurred is pure evil....can't believe our own ppl did that to each other....smh

[@Spagoshi]

What part of the story are you referring to?

[@blainehillis1921]

The Long Walk period and the Mexican American war are two distinct eras more than a decade apart. I think what hastiin means to say is we still battled Hispanic slave traders/raiders that were still out against our people even after the return from Hweeldi?

[@Spagoshi]

From what I gathered from these interviews are the untold history that weren't properly documented and were shared from their local regions. I'm sure small skirmishes continued long after recorded wars were recorded and documented.

[@blainehillis1921]

@@Spagoshi absolutely. Still awesome to hear about either way. For me those old events are in the past now but some of us from the big rez remember some of these Diné, yes as scouts and auxiliaries. Led by notorious clever men with names like Joaquin. Who was the first Navajo headman in Spanish records to side with the Kingdom of New Mexico against the rest of the tribe in the early 1800’s. Frustrated with constant raids from the big tribe against communities along the rio grande that constantly were blamed on those living at Tohajilee. Instead of punishing the real culprits residing farther to the west. Sandoval was another man not well liked by the big tribe for his shameless habit of playing all sides. He was also notorious for stealing and selling children. I remember reading about how his warriors accompanied US troops on a campaign against the Chiricahua and Western Apaches (in retaliation for the killing of Navaho agent Henry dodge.) Sandoval brought a young Apache captive with him home afterwards only to discover his homestead had been recently attacked by marauding Utes.

[@Spagoshi]

@@blainehillis1921 Ahe' hee for sharing your stories. Much appreciated. What area are you from?

[@Spagoshi]

@@blainehillis1921 shoot us a PM via social media, ahe' hee

[@blainehillis1921]

@@Spagoshi you’re welcome. This belongs to all of us. Nihidine’e. I live in Fort Defiance but my mother was from Tuba City and shizhe’é hails from Allentown near Houck, AZ along I-40.