Research Catalog

Title

The Army and the Navajo : [the Bosque Redondo Reservation experiment, 1863-1868] / Gerald Thompson.

Author

Thompson, Gerald, 1947-

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1976.

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Description

xi, 196 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Seeking a humanitarian solution to raids by Navajo and Apache Indians, the Army in 1863 created the Bosque Redondo Reservation. This unique military experiment was aimed at assimilating the Indians into Anglo society. It was both success and failure on a grand scale. Gerald Thompson offers a thorough administrative history of the Bosque Redondo. The Army and the Navajo provides valuable new insights into the federal government's Indian policy of the mid-19th century. - Back cover.

Subject

• Indian reservations > New Mexico
• Navajo Indians > Government relations
• Navajo Indians > History > 19th century
• Indian reservations > Southwest, New
• Navajo Indians
• Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation (N.M.)

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 183-187.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Navajo problem -- "Fair Carletonia" on the Pecos -- Navajos reach the Bosque Redondo-- Insects and fraud -- A controversial experiment -- The foundations crack -- Debating the reservation's fate -- Carleton's control ends -- Closing the Bosque Redondo -- A successful failure -- Appendix : Officials of New Mexico Territory and personnel of Fort Sumner and the Bosque Redondo.

ISBN

0816504954 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^75008457^//r943

OCLC

• 2146459
• SCSB-10092078

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library