For those who have lived in the 4 Corners area the story is quite different.
The Navajos were late comers who proceeded to attack all tribes around them. The massacred the Hopi villages around 1835. They made war on all the Spanish and Utes, but one time they made peace with the Spanish. This lasted for several years till the Navajo broke their own treaty and began raiding and killing again till defeated by the Anglos.
Then they had peace till the treaty was again broken by the murder of a Negro cook at a fort near Gallup, and the war was on again.
They were sent to Fort Sumner where they were forced to try and become civilized. after several years they up and walked away back to the 4 Corners area.
Compare the Navajo LONG WALK (300 miles)with the Cherokee Trail of Tears (800 miles in winter) and the Navajos come off as whiners.
Not all Navajos went. Many were still hidden back in the hills. Today they have the largest reservation in Arizona-New Mexico. It has only been in the last 40 years that the Navajo have decided to start using their water rights set aside by the early settlers and now have large irrigated farms around Farmington.
I lived there during the American Indian Movement and takeover of the Fairchild plant at Shiprock.
Even the Navajos I worked with disliked the AIM people.
I know it is off -topic. But do you know any skin walker tales?
Thank-you for the history lesson, I collect postcards of the natives of AZ. When I see them in groups around town, I am curious about them, but I have never gone up to ask what tribe they are from.