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Bosque Redondo

1863–1868 · 19th century

Bosque Redondo was an internment reservation on the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico, guarded by Fort Sumner, where the US Army confined about 9,000 Navajo and some 400 Mescalero Apache from 1863. Bad water, crop failures, disease and raids caused thousands of deaths. The treaty of 1868 signed there allowed the Navajo to return to a reservation in their homeland.

Bosque Redondo
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Navajo Nation

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Bosque Redondo. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/bosque-redondo
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