Mescalero
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Mescalero or Mescalero Apache is an Apache tribe of Southern Athabaskan–speaking Native Americans. The tribe is federally recognized as the Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Apache Reservation,
Two Mescalero women, with tipis and ramada (to the left) est. c. 1900
Mescalero Apache Tribal Administrative Offices and Community Center in Mescalero, New Mexico
Mescalero painted boy; photo entitled Long Walk of the Navajo. After being defeated by United States military forces, most of the Navajo were marched over 350-mile (560 km) during the winter of 1864 and incarcerated at Bosque Redondo, New Mexico with the Mescalero Apache.
Gorgonia, Sierrablanca Mescalero medicine man
Long Walk of the Navajo
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The Long Walk of the Navajo, also called the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo, was the deportation and forced relocation of the Navajo people by the United States federal government and the United States a
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…the Bolsón de Mapimí, moving between the Nazas River, the Conchos River and the Rio Grande to the north. Bands Mescalero painted boy; photo entitled Long Walk of the Navajo. After being defeated by United States military forces, most of the Navajo were marched over 350-mile (560 km) during the winter of 1864 and incarcerated…
Manuelito, studio portrait, c. 1897
Barboncito, c. 1865
Undated photo of Kit Carson from the Library of Congress
A U.S. soldier stands guard over Navajo people during the Long Walk.