Fort Sumner, NM / Bosque Redondo and Billy The Kid
Anyone who knows me also knows that I am an Old West fanatic! I've been facinated with that period in history ever since I was a kid. My favorite figure from those days was notorious outlaw Billy The Kid. So on our journey back from New Mexico we seized the opportunity to take a detour and visit Old Fort Sumner, where The Kid is buried!
When we arrived we found another memorial had been erected nearby to a lesser known but even more tragic event in our history. The Bosque Redondo Memorial. Fort Sumner was originally the center of a million acre reservation created to contain The Navajo and Mescalero Apache peoples. Several thousand Natives were forced to take The Long Walk to resettle there. Centered along the Pecos River, the intent was to tame the Natives and convert them to farming. Bad water, failed crops, and insufficent food supplies made Bosque Redondo a living hell for its inhabitants. The Memorial stands today to those who suffered there.
In the Fort Sumner Cemetery lies the grave of William H. Bonney aka Billy The Kid. A notorious cattle rustler and known killer, this young man was said to have killed a man for every year of his life. He was 21 years old. Shot by sheriff Pat Garrett, The Kid was laid to rest here with his two friends, Tom O'Folliard and Charlie Bowdrie. The inscription on there monument simply reads PALS.
I am so thankful to Christina and The Crew for putting up with my obsession and taking this side trip with me. Bosque Redondo was a sobering and eye opening experience, and seeing The Kid's grave has been a bucket list item my entire life.
We filmed some audio commentary for this video, but due to the wind that day, most of it was unusable.
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The New Bosque Redondo Memorial
The New Bosque Redondo Memorial
Continuing developments at Bosque Redondo Memorial
Continuing developments at Bosque Redondo Memorial
The Long Walk at Bosque Redondo
The Long Walk at Bosque Redondo
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Fort Sumner, NM
Bosque Redondo Memorial & Billy the Kid Grave
Early in this trip, we travel through Fort Sumner, New Mexico and decide to stop in and see the Bosque Redondo Memorial and Billy the Kid's gravesite.
This is the first video in a series about the history, nature and scenery in and around the lands of the Ancestral Puebloan and Navajo Nation. Don't worry. There will be overlanding and camping stuff in this series too.
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Ft Sumner Bosque Redondo Feb 2012
Ft Sumner Bosque Redondo Feb 2012
Quilt Commemorates 150th Anniversary of Bosque Redondo Treaty
Ledger/Quilt artist Susan Hudson explains the creation of A Walk with my Ancestors Coming Home, the third quilt in a three-part series depicting the atrocities which occurred at Bosque Redondo near Fort Sumner, New Mexico between 1863 and 1868.
Bosque Redondo
This is a song made by The420Four before he changed his name. Previously known as TANKAR, this is one of his songs from back then. Back in the previous 2 centuries, the Navajo (Dine') were persecuted and forced to move off of their traditional lands to a worthless piece of land called Bosque Redondo. This song is about the Navajo trail of tears.
Long Walk Of The Navajo
: Long Walk of the Navajo
I wrote this song for the long walk of the Navajos. In the spring of 1864 around 9,000 Navajo men, women and children were forced to walk over 300 miles to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, for internment at Bosque Redondo. Many lost their lives. This song is for them.
True OVERviews-Bosque Redondo
Set in the scenic Pecos River valley on the site of the old fort, this Historic Site is a beautiful destination to visit and reflect on the history and the suffering of people forced away from their homes. The site is enhanced by Memorials to the Mescalero and the Navajo, a small flock of Churro sheep as were owned by the Indians at the time and a planned peach orchard, planted with seeds from Canyon De Chelly.
Connect 107 | Reclaiming Diné History
The great, great, great granddaughter of legendary Navajo leaders Manuelito and Juanita, Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale shares with us her discoveries while writing the book: Reclaiming Dine History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita.
Hidden History - a Secret Prison in America
This period almost wiped out the Navajo (Diné) People, but they've come roaring back. This Native American story is truth unveiled.
There have been concentration camps in the United States, and this was one of them. Bosque Redondo was a special New Mexico prison made just for the Navajo and Apache people, who were trapped in the desert, under brutal conditions, for over four years at the orders of President Lincoln. Not every holocaust is in the history books.
The Navajo only arrived after the 400 mile Long Walk, across the desert, where many ran away, were stolen, or passed to the other side. Nearly half that started the walk did not return; however, the Navajo people have made a huge comeback and number 300,000 today. They are unlikely heroes!
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Featuring System Buster Johnson Yazzie, Diné (Navajo) artist, teacher, and gentleman, who shares this story over frybread. Filmed in Chinle, Navajo Nation, Arizona.
Information and select art from the Bosque Redondo Memorial.
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Fort Sumner was a military fort in De Baca County in southeastern New Mexico charged with the internment of Navajo and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863-1868 at nearby Bosque Redondo.
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Navajo American War: 1860-1868
History of Navajo American War. For more information see Outline at nahmus.org/notesnavajohistory.html.
It is critical to understand that we have many rights as Navajo Nation Citizens (Treaty of 1868 and other rights and federal law), Global Citizens (United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights), International Indigenous Citizens (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples), U.S. Citizens, State Citizens and Local Government Level Citizens (City, County). Our political rights to health and education and other services were won at the cost of thousands of Navajo lives in the Navajo American War and the dispossession by the United States of 3/4 of our traditional land base. They are not hand-outs.
As stated by Brigadier General Carleton, Commander of the U.S. Army of New Mexico Territory:
They have fought us gallantly for years on years; they have defended their mountains and their stupendous canyons with a heroism which any people might be proud to emulate; but when, at length, they found it was their destiny, too, as it had been that of their brethren, tribe after tribe, away back toward the rising of the sun, to give way to the insatiable progress of our race, they threw down their arms, and, are brave men entitled to our admiration and respect, have come to us with confidence in our magnanimity, and feeling that we are too powerful and too just a people to repay that confidence with meanness and neglect - feeling that having sacrificed to us their beautiful country, their homes, the associations of their lives, the scenes rendered classic in their traditions, we will not dole out to them a miser's pittance in return for what they know to be and what we know to be a princely realm.
Military records of the Navajo-American War may be found in:
Quotes And Material from Through White Men's Eyes: A Contribution to Navajo History: A Chronological Record of the Navaho People from Earliest Times to the Treaty of June 1, 1868, (Volume I), J. Lee Correll, Navajo Heritage Center, Window Rock, Arizona, 1979 (Six Volumes).
Navajo Nation’s President Shirley Statement at Bosque Redondo Memorial Opening:
The period known as the Long Walk, and our brutal imprisonment at Fort Sumner, marked us. It scarred us. It hurt us terribly and deeply, like nothing before, like nothing since. Like a blood stain over an entire people, it indelibly changed us from who we were in the 1800s to set the stage for who we are today...
It was our prayers, our ceremonies, our ancient way of life that brought us back from the precipice of genocide. That way of life is still a part of us today although we lost many of our songs, ceremonies and medicine men during that terrible time...
If the Bosque Redondo Memorial to the Navajo people and children who suffered and died marks a purpose greater than remembrance, it is that DinZwill continue to survive, endure, grow and prosper until the very end of time.
My failure in Fort Sumner - Video 2
This was my first ditch design here at the NRCS and I learned a lot from it. I did not specify the orientation of the pipe going into the concrete lined ditch and so the contractor just orientated it in such a way that the outlet pipe goes into the ditch at almost a 90 degree angle. This causes the water to hit the 90 degree elbow and partially flow over the front of the ditch. I should have also installed an air vent but I did not and so the outlet burbs. I assumed that the outlet would not be submerged, thusly acting as the air vent...but this was not the case. Lesson Learned!
I recommended to the land owner that he install geotextile fabric and rip rap in the area that he is having issues with erosion. This would be the easiest and cheapest fix for the problem he is having with the water that is coming over the ditch.
New Veterans memorial rest area dedicated President Obama and the navy Seals and all Veterans
I Raymond Samora put up this rest area for all Veterans for there honor In Fort Sumner New mexico at my cost.
New Mexico State Route 20, Fort Sumner Road
Run the endless country road, New Mexico State Route 20, Fort Sumner Road, NM, U.S.A. on Jun. 19, 2012.
JJ Aboah on the Bosque Redondo Gourd Dance
JJ Ahboah describes the history of Bosque Redondo and explains the background and significance of the Gourd Dance, in an interview with Carol Boss on KUNM's Afternoon Freeform
New Mexico True OVERview
Three minutes of aerial video, all around beautiful New Mexico.
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Scenes (in order of first appearance):
Albuquerque skyline
Santa Fe skyline
Las Cruces from I-10 rest area (w/ “The Roadrunner” by Olin Calk)
Valles Caldera National Preserve
Rio Grande Gorge near Taos
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
Black Range outside Kingston, near Emory Pass
Taos Ski Valley
Blue Hole, Santa Rosa
Twin Warriors Golf Club, Santa Ana Pueblo
San Lorenzo Canyon near San Acacia
Rio Grande Rafting (Racecourse section)
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Bottomless Lakes State Park
Jal Lake
Clayton Lake State Park
Elephant Butte Lake State Park
Rio Grande at Arroyo Hondo
Rio Grande at Corrales
Storrie Lake State Park
Sugarite Canyon State Park
Taos Pueblo
Western New Mexico University, Silver City
Santa Ana Star Center, Rio Rancho
Lea County Courthouse, Lovington
Union County Courthouse, Clayton
Fort Sumner Historic Site/Bosque Redondo Memorial
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque
Las Vegas (Plaza, Charlie’s Spic and Span, Castaneda Hotel, Highlands University)
San Jose de Gracia Church, Las Trampas
El Santuario de Chimayo
Artesia (and “Derrick Floor & Oilfield Pioneer Monument” and “Partners” sculptures)
Lake Carlsbad Beach Park, Carlsbad
Clayton and Eklund Hotel
Red River
Silver City Downtown
The Lodge at Cloudcroft
Hobbs High School
Cleveland High School, Rio Rancho
Lovington High School
City of Rocks State Park
Hobbs Welcome Sign
Trestle Recreation Area, Cloudcroft
New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces
Cordova
Ruidoso Downs
Ghost Ranch Education & Retreat Center
Hillsboro
Raton
Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ruidoso Downs
Corrales
Jemez Mountains
Brantley Lake State Park
Burro Avenue, Cloudcroft
Rockwind Community Links, Hobbs
Elephant Butte Dam
Zia Park Racetrack, Hobbs
John Dunn Bridge, Arroyo Hondo
El Rancho de las Golondrinas
Victory Ranch Alpacas, Mora
Ruidoso
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, Las Cruces
Santa Fe Railyard
Sandia Peak Tramway, Albuquerque