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A hundred years after the signing of the treaty that allowed the Navajo people to return to their original homes in the Four Corners Region, Fort Sumner was declared a New Mexico State Monument in 1968. The property is now managed by the New Mexico Historic Sites (formerly State Monuments) division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
Oct 8, 2018 · Open from Wednesday through Sunday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Admission is free. The Bosque Redondo Memorial is part of the Fort Sumner State Monument. The cemetery with Billy the Kid's grave is...
Located at Fort Sumner Historic Site in the scenic Pecos River valley, the Bosque Redondo Memorial chronicles a dark history: the forced relocation of an estimated 9,500 Diné (Navajo) and 500 N’de (Mescalero Apache) from their traditional tribal homelands to the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation.
Location: 3647 Billy the Kid Drive, Fort Sumner, NM 88119. Directions: Fort Sumner, NM. 3 miles east of the village of Fort Sumner on Hwy 60/84, south 3.5 miles on Billy the Kid Drive. Visiting Etiquette: Enjoy your visit. Take nothing but memories. Leave nothing but footprints. Pet Policy: Service animals are welcome inside the memorial.
The Friends of the Bosque Redondo Memorial is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to supporting the mission of the Fort Sumner Historic Site.
Text-to-speech Audio. Fort Sumner was the center of a million-acre reservation known as the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation. The story of how the U.S. Army forcibly moved the Navajo and Mescalero Apache people from their traditional homelands to the land surrounding this lonely outpost is pivotal to the history of the American West.
“The Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner State Monument solemnly remembers the dark days of suffering from 1863 to 1868 when the U.S. Military persecuted and imprisoned 9,500 Navajo (the Diné) and 500 Mescalero Apache (the N’de) on a reservation known as Bosque Redondo at Fort Sumner, New Mexico— an area that encompassed 1,600 square ...
