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Bosque Redondo (in lingua navajo: Hwéeldi) è una località che si trova nello stato federale del Nuovo Messico negli Stati Uniti. Il luogo è tristemente famoso in quanto nel periodo 1863-1868 fu adibito a riserva indiana e vi furono confinati oltre 8.500 Navajo e circa 500 Mescalero.
Learn about the Navajo (Diné) internment camp at Bosque Redondo, where they faced hardship, disease, and death. Explore how they negotiated with the United States to return to their homelands and signed the 1868 Treaty.
The Long Walk of the Navajo, also called the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo, was the forced deportation and ethnic cleansing of the Navajo people by the US government and army. The article covers the background, the marches, the internment, and the aftermath of the Long Walk.
Learn about the tragic history of the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation, where the U.S. Army forcibly relocated Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache) people from 1863 to 1868. Explore the museum, the interpretive trail, and the audio tour at this historic site in New Mexico.
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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. Those who ref...
Sherman and Tappan arrived at Fort Sumner on May 28, 1868, with full authority granted by Congress earlier that year to negotiate a treaty.: 464 The conditions on the reservation "deeply impressed Sherman" and "appalled Tappan". Tappan likened the plight of the Navajo to that of prisoners of war during the Civil War, imprisoned at Andersonville, Ge...
The treaty was divided into 13 articles. Much of the substance was modeled after the Treaty of Fort Laramie crafted for the Sioux earlier that year, and similar to many other such treaties, Bosque Redondo included a number of so-called civilization or assimilation provisions, designed to incentivize a transition to a landed agricultural existence.:...
The signing of the treaty, as a treaty, and so defined by the US government as "an agreement between two nations", effectively established the sovereignty of the Navajo Nation, although still dependent on the federal government.[e] However, according to historian Jennifer Nez Denetdale, the treaty was also "the point at which the Navajo people lost...
Medicine Lodge Treaty – Negotiated by the Peace Commission with southern Plains Indiantribes in 1867Works related to Treaty of Bosque Redondoat WikisourceProclamation from the Navajo Nationhonoring the 150th anniversary of the treatyThe treaty ended the Navajo Wars and allowed the Navajo to return to their homeland after the Long Walk of 1864. It was signed on June 1, 1868, by Navajo leaders and US commissioners at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Bosque Redondo was a million-acre reservation where the US Army forced the Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache) people to live in the 1860s. Learn about the Long Walk, the Treaty of 1868, and the legacy of this dark period in New Mexico history.
Learn how the U.S. government forcibly removed more than 10,000 Navajo (Diné) from their homelands and imprisoned them at Bosque Redondo in the 1860s. Explore the map, stories, and sources of this tragic episode in Navajo (Diné) history.
