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Biography of Barboncito
Name: Barboncito
Birth Date: 1820
Death Date: March 16, 1871
Place of Birth: Cañon de Chelly, Arizona, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: tribal leader
Barboncito
Barboncito (1820-1871) was a Native American chief who led the Navajo resistance of the mid-1860s. A staunch but peaceful opponent of white encroachment on Indian homelands, Barboncito was beloved among his people for his eloquence, his leadership skills, and his inspirational role as a religious singer. He is remembered for having signed the 1868 treaty that insured Navajos the lands on which they still live today.Barboncito was born in 1820 to the Ma'iideeshgiizhnii ["Coyote Pass"] clan at Cañon de Chelly, in present-day northeastern Arizona. The mountains of this area produced a major stronghold for the Navajos, ensuring them a formidable defensive position. Barboncito quickly rose to become one of the council chiefs of the Navajo people.Signed First TreatyWhen the United States occupied Santa Fe, in New Mexico territory, around the time of the Mexican War, the Navajos signed their first treaty with the white settlers. Barboncito was one …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…as a distinguished chief and a skillful negotiator. The Navajo still live at Cañon de Chelly. Further Reading Biographical Dictionary of the Indians of the Americas, 2nd edition, American Indian Publishers, 1991.Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Holt, 1970.Dockstader, Frederick J., Great North American Indians, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977.The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Tribes, edited by Bill Yenne, Crescent Books, 1986.Handbook of the North American Indians, edited by William C. Sturtevant, Smithsonian Institution, 1983.Insight Guides: Native America, edited by John Gattuso, Houghton Mifflin, 1993.The Native Americans: An Illustrated History, edited by Betty Ballantine and Ian Ballantine, Turner Publishing, 1993.Native North American Almanac, edited by Duane Champagne, Gale, 1994.Waldman, Carl, Atlas of the North American Indian, Facts On File, 1985.Waldman, Carl, Who Was Who in Native American History, Facts on File, 1990.Washburn, Wilcombe E., The American Indian and the United States: A Documentary History, Random House, 1973.
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