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Show THE COMING OF THE WHITEMEN 115 Manuelito, born near Bear's Ears in Utah, became the most famous Navajo leader in the wars with the United States. Photograph courtesy of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. They killed six Navajos, wounding and capturing others. Utes and New Mexicans joined for the March raid, proving that the Navajos' old foes had again united against them. Navajo raids soon followed. In May Major Thomas H. Brooks gave the order to slaughter sixty head of Manuelito's livestock, which were grazing on land set aside for Fort Defiance again. Then, on July 12, the incident that would push New Mexico out of six years of peace into another war began. |
