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Origin stories of the Diné (Navajo) tell of First Man and First Woman leading the Diné through a succession of worlds until a flood brings them to the present Glittering World. In this world the Navajo settle in Diné Bikéyah, the Navajo homeland, bound by the four sacred mountains.
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Distinctive Navajo culture emerges from 1200-1500 AD. Believed to have been born to Earth centuries earlier, a distinctive Navajo culture takes hold in the Four corners area of the Colorado Plateau.
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First Spanish contact with Navajos
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Spanish soldiers kill more than 100 Navajo women, children, and elders hiding in a cave
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Native captives are force to marched on the Long Walk to Fort Sumner, 350 miles east in New Mexico, and many died. One group, led by Hoskininni, fled from Monument Valley.
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Treaty of Bosque Redondo creates a Navajo Reservation
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Navajo communities are organized into chapters
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Roosevelt appointed a commissioner of Indian Affairs, who advocated a system of livestock reduction to alleviate soil erosion problems in conflict with the importance of livestock to the Navajo.
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The Navajo reject the Indian Reorganization Act because it is identified with livestock reduction
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Navajo Marines use their language as a battlefield code, which the enemy is unable to decipher.
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First woman elected to Navajo Tribal Council
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The first Navajo tribal park is established
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The Navajo Tribal Museum established at Window Rock
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The first Native-operated college opens on the reservation
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Navajo Tribal Council declares the reservation the Navajo Nation, also adopts the Navajo flag
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Navajo Toursim Department established
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Due to Government reform, the first Navajo president elected was Peterson Zah
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President Clinton approves Congressional Medal of Honor for WWII code talkers
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The Navajo Council acts to promote the goals of the Navajo Sovereignty in Education Act of 2005 which include the establishment and management of a Navajo Nation Department of Diné Education, to confirm the commitment of the Navajo Nation to the education of the Navajo People, to repeal obsolete language, and to update and reorganize the existing language
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50th anniversary of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park (MVNTP)
