PROOF THAT NAVAJOS CAME FROM ALASKA
A discovery of a Navajo boy

Proof that Navajos Came from Alaska

The curiosity of an educated Navaho Indian boy concerning an old tradition of his tribe has led to the discovery that the Navajos of our sun-baked Arizona and the Tinneh Indians of the ice-bound Alaska are branches of the same original tribe. This fact is made known by the Rev. Dr. George de la Motte, the superior-general of the Jesuit missions of the Rocky mountains, who is on a visit to Bishop J. B. Blondel at Helena, Montana, having recently returned from a tour of the Jesuit missions in Alaska. "This discovery was made" said Father de la Motte, "through the curiosity of a young Navajo Indian, who had been told a tradition of the tribe handed down from father to son for many generations, that the Navajos at one time inhabited a cold country. This boy read something in a magazine concerning the Tinneh Indians. The word "Tinneh" in the Navajo language means 'man.'. He became so interested that he wrote to a missionary in Alaska, mentioning a number of Navajo words and their meanings. It was found that the same words and same meanings were found in the Tinneh language. Other tribal peculiarities were compared, with the result that it has been established beyond reasonable doubt that the Navajos and Tinnehs are offshoots of the same original stock. This discovery is of immense value and interest to anthropologists, and strongly confirms the theory that the American Indians migrated from the north to their hunting grounds on this continent, displacing the original inhabitants of America; and that furthermore they originally came from Alaska. From Mountain Democrat, February 1902 The Navajo code talkers The Long Walk of the Navajo Word of Honor of the Navajo Navajo Indians at the marketplace in New Mexico Kit Carson's Expedition against the Navajo Navajo Outrages in New Mexico and Utah Navajo War against White Settlers Proof that Navajos Came from Alaska Navajos in Arms Navajos Outlawed Navajos in their new reservation Navajo Indians starving because of drought Retaliation campaign against the Apache Rights of the Navajo Woman The White Chief of the Navajoes