Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner (Navajo and Mescalero Apache internment site)

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The Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner is a historic site and museum in New Mexico that commemorates the forced internment and suffering of the Navajo (Diné) and Mescalero Apache people during the 1860s.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American history museum
historic site
memorial
museum
adjacentTo Fort Sumner military fort ruins
associatedWith Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation
Fort Sumner Historic Site
commemorates Long Walk of the Navajo
Mescalero Apache people
Navajo (Diné) people
forced internment of Navajo and Mescalero Apache people in the 1860s
country United States
dedicatedTo victims of Bosque Redondo internment
focusesOnPeriod 1863–1868
American Civil War era
hasExhibit archaeological artifacts from Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation
interpretive exhibits on Mescalero Apache internment
interpretive exhibits on the Long Walk of the Navajo
oral histories from Navajo and Mescalero Apache descendants
hasFeature interpretive center building
outdoor memorial installations
walking trails over former reservation lands
heritageDesignation New Mexico State Historic Site
languageOfSignage English
Navajo
Spanish
locatedAt site of former Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation
locatedIn De Baca County, New Mexico NERFINISHED
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
United States
locatedNear Pecos River NERFINISHED
memorialType site of conscience
nearbySettlement Village of Fort Sumner, New Mexico
operator New Mexico Historic Sites
purpose to educate the public about the Long Walk and internment policies of the 1860s
to remember the suffering of Navajo and Mescalero Apache people at Bosque Redondo
state New Mexico
subjectOf educational programs about 19th-century U.S.–Native American relations
theme Native American forced relocation
U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans
cultural survival of Navajo and Mescalero Apache peoples
topic 1860s U.S. federal Indian policy
Mescalero Apache history
Navajo history
human rights and historical trauma

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico
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