They nearly overran it, but superior gunfire forced a retreat. As a result, Chiefs Manuelito and Barboncito, leading 1,000 Navajo warriors, attacked Fort Defiance, Arizona, on August 30, 1860.

military, Mexican-Americans, the Zuni, and the Ute tribes were raiding Navajo lands. However, the treaty didn’t end the conflict between the Navajo, the New Mexicans, and recently arrived white settlers.īy 1860 the U.S. In November 1846, he was one of 14 Navajo chiefs to sign the Bear Springs Treaty, the first of nine treaties he would sign over the years. In the years that followed, Manuelito led one raiding party after another, joining forces with other leaders such as Ganado Mucho and Barboncito to attack not only the hated Mexicans but also the Hopi in Arizona, the Puebloan peoples of New Mexico, the Ute, the Comanche, and the Apache. Winning the battle, the Navajo gave him the name Hashkeh Naabaah, meaning ″Angry Warrior″. Standing over six feet tall, Manuelito was determined to become a war leader and fought his first battle at Narbona Pass in 1835 when 1000 Mexicans from New Mexico were attacking the Navajo. He admired Narbona’s fearless attitude, although his father-in-law tried to teach him the value of peace as well as war. He later migrated to Arizona, where he joined Chief Narbona’s band and married his daughter. His name means Little Manuel in Spanish, and non-Navajo nicknamed him “Bullet Hole.” He was a member of the Bít’aa’níí or ″Folded Arms People Clan″ and his father, Cayetano, was a recognized leader known for his resistance to foreign invasion. A principal Navajo war chief, Manuelito, was born near Bears Ears Peak in southeastern Utah in about 1818.

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