Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale

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American History Hit · Long Walk of the Navajo · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

But from my maternal grandparents, my mother's

aunts and uncles, my grandparents, I found the stories of his wife, my great, great, great grandmother.

And so I think that's one of the differences of doing history when you consider the perspective and for Navajo people, it coming from women-centered networks.

We also, before we answer that question, we also have to remember that there were many Diné who did not go on the forced marches.

They lived in some of the most remote, difficult places.

to get to terrain.

And so you had Navajo people to the west, Navajo people in southern, what is now southern Utah, who did not go on the forced marches.

They hid out in the canyons and in the mountainsides.

So about, it's estimated, 12,000 Navajos went on the forced marches, were incarcerated at Huel de Bosque Dando Reservation, and about...

8,000 survived the ordeal.

Some of the first photographs of Navajo people were taken at the Basque Redondo Reservation.

And I think it's telling when the anthropologist James Ferris in his book on Navajo and Photography says,

says a line that I always remember that Navajo people were not only captured with the rifle pointed at them, they were recaptured again with the lens of the camera.

They were shot both times.

And so the first images of Navajo people come out of their incarceration at Fort Sumner,

These are really difficult pictures to take, to look at.

I've gone to the, there's now, there was a Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner that officially opened in 2005.

And I often go there.

My father took us, me and my three sisters, my brother, when we were children.

And I didn't know where we were, we were at.

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