Museum to honor treaty's anniversary

 

(Eastern New Mexico News) FORT SUMNER - Time can bury many things, but healing truly begins when more people remember a tragedy. So say officials organizing an event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Bosque Redondo.
From 1863 to 1868, the U.S. military removed 9,500 Navajo and 500 Mescalero Apache from their homelands and imprisoned them on a 1,600 square mile reservation near Fort Sumner. The Bosque Redondo Memorial sits on this site as a reminder of the tribes’ hardships and resilience through it all, said Bosque Redondo Memorial Director Aaron Roth. Continued