1868
TreatyBook sources
Navajo treaty permits return from Bosque Redondo
New Mexico and Arizona; Diné people
After years of imprisonment and severe hardship, the treaty allowed the Navajo people to return to part of their homeland. It belongs here as a partial reversal of forced removal.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
Resistance / redress within a continuing federal reservation system.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8