1868: Navajo internment ends, but 2,000 died while imprisoned

In May, a census at the Bosque Redondo Reservation, located in what is now known as New Mexico, sets the total population at 7,304. At least 2,000 Navajos have died while interned there, before General William T. Sherman, the head of the Peace Commission to the Navajos, signs a treaty of agreement allowing Navajos to leave the reservation and return to a portion of their former lands.

Theme

Federal-Tribal Relations

Region

Southwest