The memorial interprets the forced removal and imprisonment of Navajo and Mescalero Apache people at Bosque Redondo in the 1860s. It is an essential, sobering counterpart to the outlaw tourism found elsewhere around Fort Sumner.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: dca.nm.gov/historic-sites/bosque-redondo-memorial-at-fort-sumner-historic-site