The Coyote Bead

When the U.S. federal forces moved The People from their ancestral land, many Navajos lost their lives due to sickness, hardship and disease. This is the horrible page of history known as The Long Walk. The tribe -- men, women and children -- were forced to walk 350 miles from their homeland to Fort Sumner. In captivity they died in larger numbers. The food given to them was rotten and full of weevils. There were some who refused to go on The Long Walk. They hid in remote canyons and used powerful medicine to secret themselves and stay alive. This book is about those who stayed behind, who forged a new life and used the powers of the coyote beads to defeat their bluecoat enemies and the ones who were even more destructive to them -- the Utes.