Evelyn would tell us stories about the Long Walk, known as the “fearing time,” after the Navajos lost the war against Kit Carson. “When Grandma little girl, she live near here. Soldiers round up Navajo people, force them walk many miles. Can’t walk fast enough as soldiers on horses. They fall. Soldiers shoot them. Food full of maggots and worms. Many starve. Apaches kill many too. Navajo people prisoners for four years. Walk home to sacred place. Everything in God’s plan.” How could she forgive what had happened to her people? And how could she be so kindhearted? I didn’t understand. She
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