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#69 It Is Written in the Wind – Boaz Power TV

April 18th, 2010

____ boazpower.com ____(March 17, 2003) During both World War I and World War II, the United States and its allies had a secret weapon that helped them win both wars. To better understand this secret weapon, we have to better understand the second largest Indian tribe in the US, the Navajos. According to the 1990 census, there are about 220000 Navajo. Only the Cherokee tribe has more members. The Navajo reservation, covering some 16 million acres in parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, is the nations biggest reservation. Large numbers of the tribe are farmers or sheep ranchers, while others are engineers, miners, teachers, or technicians. They are skilled craftsworkers, weaving wool rugs and blankets and making turquoise jewelry. About AD 1000, the ancestors of the present day Navajo migrated to the southwestern United States from what is now Alaska and Canada. In the 1800s, an increasing number of white settlers established ranches on those southwestern Navajo lands. The Indians fought to drive the ranchers away. It was in 1864 that US Army troops, led by Kit Carson, destroyed the farms and homes of the Navajo. About 8000 of the Navajos were forced, by the soldiers, to march more than 300 miles to Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Thousands of them died during the march and their imprisonment at the fort. In 1868, the Navajo agreed to settle on the reservation. The Navajo are a proud people with a rich heritage. Maybe that explains how, in the 1900s, they came to play such an …