Bosque Redondo Memorial
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
A museum and monument at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, marking the site of the Navajo Long Walk's terminus and the Mescalero Apache's forced internment, dedicated to remembrance and healing.
In 1864 the United States forced thousands of Navajo people to walk 400 miles to a reservation at Fort Sumner, and interned Mescalero Apache there as well. The memorial, opened in 2005, was designed with both nations to tell the story from their own accounts.
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