[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1384 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.1384

                      One Hundred Seventh Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
          the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two


                                 An Act


 
   To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the route in 
  Arizona and New Mexico which the Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indian 
  tribes were forced to walk in 1863 and 1864, for study for potential 
                 addition to the National Trails System.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Long Walk National Historic Trail 
Study Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
        (1) Beginning in the fall of 1863 and ending in the winter of 
    1864, the United States Government forced thousands of Navajos and 
    Mescalero Apaches to relocate from their ancestral lands to Fort 
    Sumner, New Mexico, where the tribal members were held captive, 
    virtually as prisoners of war, for over 4 years.
        (2) Thousands of Native Americans died at Fort Sumner from 
    starvation, malnutrition, disease, exposure, or conflicts between 
    the tribes and United States military personnel.

SEC. 3. DESIGNATION FOR STUDY.

    Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(____) The Long Walk Trail, a series of routes which the Navajo 
and Mescalero Apache Indian tribes were forced to walk beginning in the 
fall of 1863 as a result of their removal by the United States 
Government from their ancestral lands, generally located within a 
corridor extending through portions of Canyon de Chelley, Arizona, and 
Albuquerque, Canyon Blanco, Anton Chico, Canyon Piedra Pintado, and 
Fort Sumner, New Mexico.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.