Four Navajo Warriors Notebook

Four Navajo Warriors 1861-1869 George Catlin Navajos played a major role in winning the war in the Pacific by developing a code based on the Navajo language that the Japanese couldn't break. Anthropologists hypothesize that the Navajo split off from the Southern Athabaskans and migrated into the Southwest between 200 and 1300 A.D. Between 900 and 1525 A.D. the Navajos developed a rich and complex culture in the area of present-day northwestern New Mexico. George Catlin was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveller, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American Frontier. Travelling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. Born: July 26, 1796, Wilkes-Barre, PA Died: December 23, 1872, Jersey City, NJ.