And if you knew anything about the history of the southwest perhaps you would not make such a stupid comment. The name is in honor of my father and his people ——The long march ( referred to by such as you as the long walk) was a time of trial and challenge to survive.
The fact that you know so little about your country’s history and yet so much about the history of a modern communist state says more about you than me
I am fully aware of the Long Walk endured by the Navajo people and am ashamed for my country for such episodes, but you cannot fault me for not knowing it by the name you call it. The history of this nation is replete with instances of suffering and injustice.
My family arrived in chains in 1704 with a 10 year indenture for daring to unsuccessfully challenge the crown in the Jacobite rebellion. All of our ancestral lands were seized by the crown and many of my family members were given the gallows. My family members defended the frontiers in the French and Indian Wars, suffered at Valley Forge, and again fought the British in the War of 1812. My grandfather's grandfather marched into Mexico in 1849 and succumbed to injuries and disease as a POW at Andersonville. His grandson, my grandfather fought in Cuba, chased Poncho Villa into Mexico with Pershing and was wounded in combat in WWI. My father fought in the Pacific in WWII earning two Purple Hearts and Silver Star and I am a Vietnam combat vet. There are many things about the history of this country that you do not know, but it will suffice that to say that level of continuous warfare, conditions of slavery, human sacrifice and cannibalism encountered by the Europeans upon arrival in the New World clearly prove that what ever suffering our ancestors endured at the hands of the United States pales in comparison to what would have been without it.