Navajo Trade Routes

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1. Barboncito

   Barboncito, Navajo spokesperson in the 1868 negotiations. Navajo spokesperson in the agreement permitting return from forced confinement.

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2. Bosque Redondo

   Internment site 1864–68. Forced displacement reshaping trade.

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3. Dine

   Diné, the Navajo people. People who used and maintained the regional travel and trade network.

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4. Freight Wagons

   Freight wagons used between trading posts and the warehouse. Vehicles carrying goods on the trading-post network.

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5. Gallup

   Gallup, New Mexico, site of the wholesale warehouse. Warehouse destination of trading-post freight routes.

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6. Ganado

   Location of Hubbell Trading Post.

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7. Hubbell

   Hubbell’s trading post and network, since 1878.

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8. Long Walk

   Forced 1864 removal to Fort Sumner.

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9. Manuelito

   Navajo leader who signed the 1868 treaty.

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10. Navajo Blanket

    Navajo woven blanket traded through the Bent’s Old Fort network before the later trading-post era.

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11. Navajo Nation

    Present-day Navajo Nation where Hubbell post operates.

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12. Pinon Nuts

    Piñon nuts traded to settle store debts. Seasonal commodity traded through the trading-post economy.

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13. Turquoise

    Turquoise used in jewelry traded at the post. Jewelry material among goods exchanged by Navajo traders.

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14. Winslow

    Winslow, Arizona, site of a Hubbell wholesale house. Wholesale-house location within the later trading-post business network.

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15. Wool

    Wool transported by the Hubbell freight network.

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