Long Walk of the Navajo
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title:
Long Walk of the Navajo
text:
The Long Walk of the Navajo, also called the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo, was the deportation and ethnic cleansing of the Navajo people by the United States federal government and the United States army. Navajos were forced to walk from their land in western New Mexico Territory to Bosque Redondo in eastern New Mexico. Some 53 different forced marches occurred between August 1864 and the end of 1866. In total, 10,000 Navajos and 500 Mescalero Apache were forced to the internment camp in Bosque R
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description:
1864 act of ethnic cleansing in the US
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Walk_of_the_Navajo
date created:
2004-03-24T06:39:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T11:58:53Z
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