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Bosque Redondo Memorial. Like some internment camps involving several tribes, the Bosque Redondo had serious problems. About 400 Mescalero Apaches were placed there before the Navajos. The Mescaleros and the Navajo had a long tradition of raiding each other; the two tribes had many disputes during their encampment.
"Bosque Redondo: A Place of Suffering - A Place of Survival" is a new permanent exhibit at the Bosque Redondo Memorial in Fort Sumner. The exhibit takes you through the history of the Long Walk ...
Jul. 13—With time and effort — change arrives. In the case of "The Long Walk" at Bosque Redondo near Fort Sumner, it has taken 159 years to get the narrative corrected. The public is able to ...
On June 4, 2005, a new museum designed by Navajo architect David N. Sloan was opened on the site as the Bosque Redondo Memorial. Congress had authorized the establishment of the memorial by the Secretary of Defense in 2000, making federal funds available for construction.
In 1878, John Lorenzo Hubbell purchased this trading post, ten years after Navajos were allowed to return to the Ganado region from their U.S.-imposed exile in Bosque Redondo, Fort Sumner, New Mexico. This ended what is known in Navajo history as the "Long Walk of the Navajo." Through extensive archival research, historian Cottam (Arizona State ...
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Beginning in the spring of 1864, the Army forced around 9,000 Navajo men, women, and children to walk over 300 miles (480 km) to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, for internment at Bosque Redondo. The internment was disastrous for the Navajo, as the government failed to provide enough water, wood, provisions, and livestock for the 4,000 to 5,000 people.
Navajo under guard at Bosque Redondo. Following conflicts between the Navajo and US forces, and scorched earth tactics employed by Kit Carson, which included the burning of tribal crops and livestock, James Henry Carleton issued an order in 1862 that all Navajo would relocate to the Bosque Redondo Reservation [b] near Fort Sumner, in what was then the New Mexico Territory.