Navajo Prejudges
Although many Native Americans today are loosing touch of their roots, the Navajo tribe from the southwest in particular is struggling with its dying culture. ... This is very significance to the Navajo way of life today, because their culture has slowly deteriorated with the rise of the modern world, leaving only middle-aged and elderly who can even speak the language. Due to prejudges from the white European settlers in the 1800s, the Navajo tribe lost much of its culture when its land, language, and, religion were taken away. The loss of the Mexican war marked the begging of the US-Navajo confrontation over land. ... The homeland of the Navajo tribe was included in this sum of land. ... In order to take over the Navajo land, the Navajos were exiled to Bosque Redondo, New Mexico in 1864.