NAVAJOS IN ARMS
White People Living near the Navajo Reservation fear a Massacre

Navajos in Arms

Denver. Colo., Feb. 8. -- Five hundred Navajo warriors are reported camped at West Waters, between La Plata and Ojo and about sixty miles south of Darango, Colo. The squaws have been sent back to the reservation and settlers along the San Juan, La Plata and Animas rivers fear an Indian massacre. The trouble arises over the killing of a Navajo Indian a few weeks ago by John Cox, who has refused to give ten horses of $200 as damages to the Navajos. These Indians are reported as massing their warriors and scouts have been sent by whites to Fort Lewis, For Wingate and Fort Defience for troops. Sheriff Kit Carson of San Juan county, N. M. recently recaptured some horses of Joseph Sherrif, whose family had been run off by the Navajos, and the Indians are also angry about this. There was a fight between settlers and Indians on the San Juan river last December, and trouble has been brewing since. At a recent three days powwow a Navajo chief said the white man who killed a Navajo must be punished or the Navajos will retaliate. The Navajos could put 3,000 warriors in the San Juan river settlement in twenty-four hours. A new generation of Navajos has grown up since Kit Carson so terribly punished them in 1868. Hornellsville Weekly Tribune, Feb 14, 1890 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