It's Fort Sumner. Here's a nice little link that gives a decent overview of the event: The Long Walk

My husband's ancestors were Long Walk survivors. There were a number of cultural disruptions afterwards as well. My husband's grandfather was removed from his home and put into a boarding school while he was still fairly young. As a result, he barely remembers either of his parents. What is interesting though is that he did remember Navajo (he spoke almost totally in Navajo with my husband though he could speak english as well) and he also knew a great deal of medicine lore. One of his parents could've been a medicine man (or woman) for all we know.

I gave a short version of the story of skinwalkers on the Long Walk a few weeks ago on another thread. I can summarize it again here (probably easier than hunting for it lol).

According to the story, there were skinwalkers that also participated in the Long Walk. The people were starving, cold and tired and desperately missed home. A skinwalker missed home so terribly that he took the shape of a coyote and ran all the way back home again only to return by morning. Over and over again, the skinwalker did this until it corrupted him. For a medicine man to abuse his powers for his own wants is a major social faux pas. Like I said somewhere up there, a rich medicine man might as well be a skinwalker.

Stephanie

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.--Ralph Waldo Emerson