Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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They would just take us on a road trip.
My mom would pack a cold lunch.
So when I became an adult, a young woman, I went to Fort Sumner again.
And so every time I go there to Fort Sumner to the Bosque Redondo Memorial, I think of the experiences of my Navajo people.
They were there.
They were incarcerated there at the same time as the Mescalero Apache who live in southern New Mexico.
And so they lived in pits dug in the ground.
The Pecos River runs right alongside Fort Sumner and still does.
The water was not drinkable.
It was alkali.
And it was very difficult because they could not grow a crop.
They didn't have much access to livestock.
What had sustained them was the weaving of the women.
They were known throughout the Southwest for their textiles.
These were valuable trading commodities.
And so they were completely reliant on Americans for even the most basic things.
People often think of fried bread as a traditional food.
It is prison food because this was their introduction to something that's now common like coffee, beans.
White flour.
Contractors were profited enormously because they sold cattle as beef to the army for food for Navajo people.
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