bosque redondo indian reservation (n.m.)

Illustrations and simple text chronicle the forced march of thousands of Navajos from their homelands to Bosque Redondo in January, 1864.

Chronicles the events that led to the Navajo Nation's forced removal from their homeland to a reservation in eastern New Mexico in the 1860s, and discusses the lasting impact that relocation had on the Navajo psyche.

Presents an overview of the history of the Navajo Indians, with a detailed account of how the United States Government, represented by Kit Carson, forced them on a 300-mile walk from their homeland in the Southwest to a prison camp at Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, in 1864, and their eventual return home after the United States-Navajo Treaty of 1868.