Navajo Long Walk by nancy m. armstrong

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April 26,2025

I read this for my class. It tells only part of the story of the Navajo forced march, relocation to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and four years of imprisonment which ended in 1868. Very little detail of the true horrors they faced are included. It could be the basis of in-depth discussions and factual information. Children are strong enough to face the truth.

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BlurSong2

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April 26,2025

This is a children's book but it helped me understand what the experience of the Long Walk may have been like.

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hamliet

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April 26,2025

Navajo Long Walk read like fiction! The tone did not relay the seriousness of the Navajo Long Walk. I don’t know if the writer was trying to underplay the actual brutality, viciousness and the victimization that the Navajos experienced to protect young readers or to paint the white politicians and soldiers in a light not to expose their actual behavior, but, whatever the writer was attempting to do, it made the Navajo Long Walk appear to be everything it was not.

Parents who are truly interested in teaching their children about History, no matter how gruesome it was, will pass on any book written or published by The Council for Indian Education. I know I won’t be reading any of their stories to my grandchild.

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Karkashan

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April 26,2025

This book was written for much younger readers than I am. I found I could forecast what was going to happen and I was able to forecast things in the end of the book when they were still a ways off. But this is a story of a tragic event in our history which did not end well for many. I know that, but children in younger grades do not need to have a stark reality of death and loss thrown at them without some kind of positive ending to help them with the sadness.

Some of the story was a little trite, but I think the younger readers will need that. There were some words which younger readers would have problems with, but in a supervised reading, I think this book would be awesome for those readers who are just starting chapter books. For me, this book is a three. For a second or third grader, I would hope this book could awaken their imagination and help to get them on a path toward life long reading. I would hope this book would become a five for a younger reader.

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asi

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April 26,2025

I had to get back on Smoke before he dumped me, or I'd never have enough nerve to ride again.

He saw his grandmother really cry. THis time it was for joy.

THe quiet was glorious. He could hear only sounds he loved, the subdued voices of his family, and Moises made by contended animals moving in their corrals. Peace settled over him.

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TheTrueQueen

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April 26,2025

this book is very iontresting because the navajo people had to walk really far and pass throught many hard sitiations.this kid name knee is the main character,knee's grandma almost die when she was crossing el rio grande.

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