The Long Walk of the Navajo, also called the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo (Spanish: larga caminata del navajo), was the deportation and ethnic cleansing [3] [4] of the Navajo people by the United States federal government and the United States army.

Between 1863 and 1866, more than 10,000 Navajo (Diné) were forcibly removed to the Bosque Redondo Reservation at Fort Sumner, in current-day New Mexico. During the Long Walk, the U.S. military marched Navajo (Diné) men, women, and children between 250 to 450 miles, depending on the route they took.

The Long Walk of the Navajo, also called the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo, was an Indian removal effort of the United States government in 1863 and 1864.

2023年4月1日 · The Navajo Long Walk is a critical event in the history of the Navajo people and the broader narrative of Native American experiences in the United States. In 1864, over 8,000 Navajo were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands and marched over 300 miles to a desolate reservation at Bosque Redondo in present-day New Mexico.

2025年1月31日 · Starting in the spring of 1864, Navajo men, women, and children were then forced to march about 400 miles to a tract of land in eastern New Mexico, on the Pecos River. The journeys were made in several batches over different routes. Some of the infirm Indians died along the way or drowned crossing the Rio Grande.

The Long Walk, a forced relocation of the Navajo people undertaken by the United States government in the 1860s, stands as one of the most harrowing events in Native American history.

2005年6月15日 · It came to be called the Long Walk -- in the 1860s, more than 10,000 Navajos and Mescalero Apaches were forcibly marched to a desolate reservation in eastern New Mexico called Bosque Redondo....

1997年12月1日 · One of the most tragic episodes of exile was the Long Walk in 1864, when Kit Carson rounded up 8,000 Navajos and forced them to walk more than 300 miles from northeastern Arizona and...

2023年7月18日 · After the U.S. seized their lands more than 150 years ago, the Diné (Navajo) people embarked on the Long Walk—a 300-mile trek to exile. Photographer Dakota Mace shares their stories.

This map illustrates the various routes taken at various times during Hwéeldi, the Long Walk, between the fall of 1863 and late 1866.