NAVAJOS OUTLAWED
Drastic measures against Navajo and Apache Indians

Navajos outlawed

In August of 1869, the two reports shortly following each other appeared about the Navajo Indians. The St. Joseph Herald of August 21 reported: "A telegram from Santa Fe, received on the l3th, reports that Governor Mitchell had issued a proclamation declaring all Navajo and Gila Apache Indians outlaws whenever found outside the limits of their reservations, and authorizing citizens to kill every such depredator." In other words, any white person who saw Apache or Navajo Indians outside their reservation was authorized to kill those. The Daily Gazette of August 25 claimed that the proclamation could not be enforced. "Vincent Collyer telegraphs from San Francisco, that if Gov. Mitchell's unwise proclamation, declaring the Navajoes outlaws, be enforced, it will break up the agency and school at Fort Defiance, as there are no United States troops nearer than Ft. Wingate, forty miles distant." 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