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Navajos were forced to walk from their land in western New Mexico Territory (modern-day Arizona and New Mexico) to Bosque Redondo in eastern New Mexico. Some 53 different forced marches occurred between August 1864 and the end of 1866. In total, 10,000 Navajos and 500 Mescalero Apache were forced to the internment camp in Bosque Redondo. [2]
The Bosque Redondo Memorial and Fort Sumner Historic Site are located 6.5 miles (10.5 km) southeast of Fort Sumner, New Mexico: 3 miles (4.8 km) east on US Route 60/US Route 84, then 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south on Billy the Kid Road.
Fort Sumner is a village in and the county seat of De Baca County, New Mexico, United States. [4] The population was 1,031 at the 2010 U.S. Census, [5] down from the figure of 1,249 recorded in 2000.
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 ...
"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 ...
The Treaty of Bosque Redondo (Spanish for "Round Forest") also the Navajo Treaty of 1868 or Treaty of Fort Sumner, Navajo Naal Tsoos Sani or Naaltsoos Sání [1] [2] [a]) was an agreement between the Navajo and the US Federal Government signed on June 1, 1868.
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 ...
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.