Key events in the history of the Navajo include more than 150 years of interaction with white settlers in the American Southwest. These events, often tragic and inaccurately documented, contain the historical roots of life on the Navajo reservation today.

To learn more about key historical events, please refer to the individual pages listed on the left side of this page or right below.

• Pueblo Revolts - 1680
• Navajo War - 1860-1864
• Long Walk - 1864
• Allotment Act of 1887
• Boarding Schools - 1890's
• Citizenship Act of 1924
• Dust Bowl 1930 - Slaughter of Navajo Sheep
• Navajo Code Talkers - 1940's
• Termination Policy - 1953-1968
• Self Determination Act - 1975
• Indian Religious Freedom Act - 1978