BOSQUE REDONDO MEMORIAL
Incarceration Memorial — Fort Sumner, New Mexico
Status: Historic site · Access: Access unknown
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Public historical memorial to Diné and Ndé forced removal.

Bosque Redondo Memorial is a incarceration memorial in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Public historical memorial to Diné and Ndé forced removal. From 1863 to 1868, Fort Sumner centered the Bosque Redondo reservation where the U.S. Army confined Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache) people after forced removal.

Bosque Redondo is Hwéeldi — the place of suffering — the million-acre reservation at Fort Sumner where Carleton and Carson forced the Navajo and the Mescalero Apache between 1863 and 1868. The Long Walk: fifty groups over three hundred miles, stragglers shot, women in childbirth killed for falling behind, slave traders taking children off the column. At the reservation: no wood, foreign rations, the smallpox from the soldiers, fifteen hundred dead — twenty percent of the Navajo people.
The assimilation was the design — farming a land that couldn't be farmed, Christianity instead of the ceremonies they were forbidden, the Navajo and Apache penned together on the Pecos. It failed by 1866; in 1868 they signed the treaty at the fort and went home — the Long Walk back, the sovereign Navajo Nation the treaty created. The memorial at Fort Sumner opened in 2005 — the site where the suffering happened and the treaty that ended it.
The file keeps Bosque Redondo: the Long Walk, the million-acre reservation, the fifteen hundred dead, and the 1868 treaty that let them go home.
Bosque Redondo is the archive's Long Walk file — the internment camp and the treaty that ended it.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Bosque Redondo is the archive's Long Walk file — Hwéeldi and the Navajo Nation's creation.
A reservation keeps its treaty — the file's suggestion being that Bosque Redondo's hold is the return: the place of suffering where twenty percent died, and the treaty that sent the survivors home to found the sovereign nation that exists today.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· From 1863 to 1868, Fort Sumner centered the Bosque Redondo reservation where the U.S. Army confined Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache) people after forced removal. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It enters the file through media reporting — documented coverage, not folklore. 'Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site — New Mexico Historic Sites
  https://www.nmhistoricsites.org/bosque-redondo

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