Did You Know About Kit Carson's Destruction of the Navajo's Peach Trees?
I only found out from Hunter Hazelton at the first Friday poetry reading at Changing Hands. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-03-me-896-story.html#:~:text=An%20Army%20colonel%20in%20the,Sumner%20in%20eastern%20New%20Mexico. An Army colonel in the fall of 1863, Kit Carson led his troops through Canyon de Chelly, burning hogans, slaughtering livestock and destroying crops, including about 5,000 peach trees. Carson’s mission was to force the Navajos to surrender and be herded into imprisonment at Ft. Sumner in eastern New Mexico. The freezing 300-mile trek, known as the “Long Walk,” still haunts today’s 200,000 Navajos. Thousands of their ancestors died on the walk or at the fort before an 1868 treaty permitted them to return to their homeland.
