The Long Walk of the Navajo, also called the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo (Navajo: Hwéeldi), refers to the 1864 deportation and attempted ethnic cleansing of the Navajo people by the U.S. Government. Navajos were forced to walk at gunpoint from their reservation in what is now Arizona to eastern New Mexico. Some 53 different forced marches occurred between August 1864 and the end of 1866. Some anthropologists claim that the "collective trauma of the Long Walk...is critical to contemporary Navajos' sense of identity as a human".
| “ | This story is about the long walk to Fort Sumner. There are two points of view regarding it—the White man's and the Navajo's. | ” |
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—Howard W. Gorman, Navajo Stories of the Long Walk Period, page 42. |
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