Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale
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The rations given out to the prisoners was starvation amounts.
And often when they came in for their annuities, for their rations, they were starving and they would eat a week's worth of issue in one day because they were so hungry.
They lived on the north side of this
irrigation ditch, which they and the Mescalero Apache prisoners had hand dug.
It's called a Sica Madre, which the farmers and ranchers in Fort Sumner still utilize and maintain.
The prisoners lived on the north side of that for 10 miles in dugouts in the ground.
It's estimated that there was 12,000 Navajo prisoners and 8,000 returned home.
That's just an estimate.
Yeah.
Four years from late 1863 up to June 1868.
This was supposed to be their reservation.
This was supposed to be their new home, just like the Indigenous people that had been herded to Indian Territory, they were to stay here.
And our leaders were very successful in terms of negotiating this.
an agreement that they would return to their homeland.
And it was really, it really was a possibility that my people would have been sent to Indian territory at this time because that's where indigenous people were being sent.
Apologies are apologies.
They're empty and they don't hold much in terms of reparations.
This is ongoing conversations and sources of tensions with Indigenous people within the United States.
And of course, right now, the U.S., it's not any less difficult than it has ever been for Indigenous people within the United States.
I'm 67 years old right now.
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