Why was the Navajo Indian Reservation created?

Question

I can't seem to find this information any of the various sights I have been reviewing. Please help... For an American History course.

Answer 1

What? Why should the Navajo be given special treatment when all the other indians were destroyed or shoved onto postage stamp-sized places "reserved" for them?

Here's some links that might help.

Answer 2

The Navajo are the largest of the Indian nations. A quarter-million of them. The also have the largest reservation. They have objections with the Hopi and the Apache.

Their language is nice, in one term a member of the Na-Dene family of languages. At WWII, the Navajo language was undocumented. There were about five white people who could explain it. So, the Navajo Code Talkers.

Nowadays, Navajo is well-documented, with the big grammer and the big dictionary. But the language is still among the most obsure.

Answer 3

The Navajo reservation was created as the US government annexed all of the Navajo's native land. In specific, the US Gov needed a way to keep track of the indians, and wanted to shove em in one place so they could control them while they stole their land.